SOC346H5 : SOC346H5 Chapter 7 Answers.docx
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Chapter 7: please describe spierenburg"s criticism of discipline and punish (p. 158 159). Like durkheim and marx, f"s explanation only provides a partial part of punishment. Neither punishment nor penal history can be fully understood in terms of power. A wider and more pluralistic view is needed! One criticism was when and why was the practice of public torture abandoned. In f"s work, he says that public torture was used between 1750-1820 and this is what historians (like. S says that elimination of public torture should not be viewedas an independent event but instead as a stage in changing privatized punishments. In addition, the elimination of public torture were in fact ended near 1600. Langbein suggests that the change in law may be a result of abandonment of torture. Brown suggests the whole confession system( using torture to take evidence) is set upon religious beliefs and had been altered before any penal practice was taken place.
