CRIM 2650 Lecture Notes - Erving Goffman, Symbolic Interactionism, Impression Management
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Lecture overview: assignments, brief recap, erving goffman and stigma, stanley cohen and moral panic. Moderator: we will begin our discussion of whether we should continue to hold formal criminal trials for your offenders with a noted contemporary deterrence theorist. Contemporary deterrence theorist: in order to function as effective general deterrence, punishment needs to be public in order to prevent would-be offenders from committing a similar kind of crime. While punishment needs to be public, it does not need to be formal. Research finds that people are far more influenced by the non-legal costs of committing crime, especially the negative reactions of family and friends, than they are of the reactions of the criminal justice system (lily et al. , 2011: 348). Referencing: in-text citation (author"s last name, year of publication: page #) use in text citations. Braithwaite: i also agree that we should cease holding formal trials. A formal trial is a ceremony that operates on disintegrative shaming.
