Sociology 2256A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Canadian Association Of Elizabeth Fry Societies, Bloody Code, Kingston Penitentiary
3 Feb 2017
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Personal retaliation~ physical, punishment in hands of individuals not state. Blood feuds~ death penalty, corporal punishment, exiles and fines, family seeks vengeance on behalf of individual. Ecclesiastical prisons~ catholic church, more common in 9th century. Utilized death penalty to deal with this. Death penalty was a public spectacle (shaming and humiliation) Punishing the body became punishing the mind. Guards can see into individual cells all around them. Constant supervision that leads to self control of prisoners. No true panopticon was ever built, but prisons did use variations. English people to americas and australia (~2000 each year) Isolation for some inmates (turned into solitary confinement) Better classification system of prisoners (not all the same, differentiated by level. Integrated the idea of rehabilitation of crime committed) Act of 1800, restriction on punishment in upper canada. Held people awaiting trial or another form of punishment. Acted as houses of corrections for the homeless or need people for which there as no other place.
