Sociology 2256A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Indictable Offence, Mass Incarceration, Pierre Trudeau
1 Feb 2017
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Correctional change occurs when one or more of the following occur: The severity of punishment of convicted offenders is modified. Corporate punishment was most commonly used as a form of retaliation. Punishment was in the hands of individuals, not the state (different to present day: blood feuds (family effort) 6th century: ecclesiastical prisons run by the catholic church. Influenced later prison design and notion of religion as reformatory initiative: origins of confinement. 1500s punishment by imprisonment used in england 1600s evolved to continental europe. 1557, first house of correction: hard labour beneficial for society and the individual. 1700s, start of the industrial revolution: break down in feudalism, mass migration to urban areas. Ex. stealing a loaf of bread: public spectacle shaming and humiliation, deterrent effect. Bloody code: 1780 increased number of offences punishable by death penalty. 1: capital offences stealing, counterfeiting, pickpocketing, cutting down trees.
