CRIM 3656 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Moral Authority, Free Market, Visible Minority
22 Apr 2017
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The connection between prisons and punishment is largely taken-for-granted. Despite those failures of the prison, we tend to over rely on prisons as a form of punishment in canada. Identify the degree to which we take advantage of it: punishment is a social phenomenon: It does not exist in nature, but is rather influenced and affected by a wide range of social, economic, and political factors. David garland: social distance, inequality, and punishment: Nils christie: relationship between social and physical distance, as it pertains to punishment. Points to the effects that social and physical distance have on our willingness to punish, and above all, punish more harshly, which are related to notions of inequality. Social distance is enhanced along existing inequalities that are evident along multiple intersections. Principle of restraint in the development of canadian criminal justice policy: Guided our policy on punishment since the early 19th and late 20th century. Engaged in self-harming behaviour when placed in solitary confinement.
