SOCI 3150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pell Grant, Gallows, Walnut Street Prison
22 Dec 2017
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Module 2 social history of punishment (war on the poor) The social history of punishment: social forces (politics, economics, religion, & tech) shape punishment. Religion had huge in uence > convicted lacked morals & godly ways and executions = sacri ce (ex. cruci cation: earlier societies > punishment was way to placate the gods god"s will. Public execution of stoning, beheading = a sacri cial act. Allows individual to participate w/o feeling responsible. Used today to deny participation we are the state. the state punishes. Code of hammurabi : 1st written legal code; forces on eye for an eye ; vengeance. Lex talionis : law of retaliation or vengeance > provided justi cation for mutilation/ duplicating the injury. Ex. thieves lost hands; spies lost eyes; rapist were castrated: organized societies. Ancient greece & class bias : lower-class criminals experienced: gibbeting (public display of executed bodies, garroting (strangling to death in an iron chair, breaking on the wheel (people pulled apart)
