CRIM 252 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Jeremy Bentham, Tuberculosis, Halfway House
18 Jan 2020
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The primary role of the correctional service of canada is to provide safe, secure, humane custodial control over offenders places in their care: define punishment: Punishment is commonly defined as the act of inflicting a consequence or penalty on someone as a result of their wrongdoing, or the consequence or penalty itself . There are four principal justifications for punishing criminal offenders: retribution, deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation/reintegration. There have been various perspectives offered on the functions of punishments. Emile durkheim believed punishments was a moral process that served to reinforce and preserve shared values and norms in society. Karl marx focused on punishment as an instrument of the ruling class to preserve the economic order and ensure maintenance of the status quo. Lastly, michel foucault"s views were a shift from traditional corporal and capital punishment to reformation of offenders: three correctional ideologies: The classical (conservative) school, positivist (liberal) school, and critical (radical) school are the three main correctional ideologies.
