CRIM 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Kingston Penitentiary, Michael Ignatieff, Prison Reform
30 May 2013
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Prisons were built to improve punishment rather than reduce it. Possessed by the devil, medical model, social model etc. 1: prisoner is shamed and tortured publicly in the middle ages. Takes place when one or more of the following occurs: 1979 book discipline and punish: the birth of the prison . Now, our justice system largely occurs in private. We"ve moved away from the punishment of the body to punishment of the mind. Purpose of prisons is to maintain order today. Looks at how we punished prior to the industrial revolution and how we did after. Our response to offending changed with the industrial revolution. We strip away anything that makes a person human. We bore them to madness, they become incapable of readjusting to life outside. Unless were clued in, we largely have no idea of what actually happens. If deterrence is the goal, then public torture would work better than some private prison.
