SOC102H1 Lecture 9: Lecture 9 Notes
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Crime; break rules/laws, sanctions are attached that requires the state. 3 questions by sociologists: why commit crime, relation to inequality, what is defined crime, why are some more likely to be labelled deviant. White collar crime (sutherland); corporate/white collar crime is organized, less studied, less punished. Punishment goals: retribution/vengeance, deterrence; scared them away (what the canadian system is based on, rehab, reintegrate to society www. notesolution. com, restorative justice. Incapacitation, if they are considered threat to society. Repressive justice: death penalty, corporal punishment, torture: very rare today. Durkheim (division of labour in society); in industrial societies, repressive -> restorative justice. Foucalt (discipline and punishment); punishment was a spectable; inhuman & didn"t lessen crime. Old style of punishment: deterrence/rehab and lots of body discipline, new style: surveillance (panopticon idea) Goffman" s total institutions; disciplinary institutions that attack the prisoner"s self-concept. ; prisons only make immates better prisoners, it prepares them better for life inside it than in the outside world.
