CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mass Incarceration, Crime Prevention, Medicalization
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Use of mass incarceration is connected to globalization. Connection between punitive state, changes in economy and historical function of prisons. Cjs works the least effectively and efficiently when it is politicized. Majority of north americans believe that prisons should punish. The origins of modern prisons are the opposite history of punishment is a move away from punishing conditions to reform and rehabilitation and reintegration. Prisons = not created to be punishing institutions. Imprisonment = was supposed to be the punishment itself; rid them of their liberty and isolate them. Even after 200 years, we are not serving the original purpose of prisons/correctional system. Prisons are so common that their existence is considered self-evident and useful by most. History of imprisonment = taught us time and time again that we are not necessarily sure of what their function is. Prisons = last resort for those who have been convicted of serious crime and are there just because they are.