CRM/LAW C163 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Frontier Thesis, Crime Prevention, Distributive Justice

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Criminology, Law and Society
• Course: CRM/LAW C163
• Professor: Geoff Ward

Document Summary

Lecture 8 -power and punishment: justice system involve issues of power (interests we have over influence, social control is a social event (process of punishment is an important social event) Foucault: we should understand as a technological expression of power and its power to be able to impose. Example: prison panopticon (single tower watching overall around as a social event. Durkheim a socialization event (an event where you are a tied into society ) punishment as a solidarity (vehicle by which we enforce norms. Max weber interested in how legal authority create a particular kind of sense of obligation in society and beauracritc apparatus (legal authority establishes a duty to obey laws, and leads to bureaucratization) Marxist argue that institutions like law are shaped by parallel relation of power and organized to benefit the ruling dominant groups in society (law to appease the elite. More extreme are social exclusionary sanctions which break ties or weaken them (death, incarceration, deportations)