SOC 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Jim Crow Laws, Solitary Confinement, Juvenile Court

• School: University of Hartford
• Department: Sociology - A&S
• Course: SOC 375
• Professor: Norland Stephen

Document Summary

Ny and pennsylvania prison system featured penitentiary style of total isntutions. There was a religious flavor that offenders might be reformed based on strengthing religious commitment and involvement. There was strong discipline and concern about respect for authority. There was very harsh conditions that were sent to sanitation and health. Daily life was characterized by brutality and abuse. Evidence was clear that social control wasn"t successful. Individual offenders were held in very insecure harsh conditions, not treated well. They were considered as marginal to society, low status, untrustworthy, people who must be broken. Evidence suggests that the harsh penal style of control was because the offender population was increasingly immigrant. No appropriate informal control network, cross cutting social ties. We do know that those offenders had greater distances to trilateral intimacy control. Selden said society as a whole agrees with the religious theme, given the background of the paratins who were believed.