SOC 3740- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 83 pages long!)
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Course objectives: history of punishment, ideologies of punishment, recent trends. What is most e ective: reintegration/reentry, alternatives to prison. American context: the availability of jobs in the criminal justice system is increasing, almost all individuals who are incarcerated are eventually released into the community, punishment"s role in modern society is not obvious or well known. It is a problematic and poorly understood aspect of social life: we need to know what punishment is in order to think about what it can and should be. Taxpayers want a break : canada"s prisons are the new residential schools . What is punishment : key elements of punishment: Explores the relations between punishment and society - its purpose as a social phenomenon and its role in social life: understands penal institutions and their practices within a wider social network, punishment is historically, culturally and situationally speci c.
