CRIM 1650 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Making Money, Postmodernity, Mandatory Sentencing

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: cladiuocalagari

Document Summary

The cost of imprisonment is high for each prisoner (over ,000 a year). Despite the cost, many canadians continue to demand increasingly severe penalties for criminal violations. Most of canadians believe that spending this amount of money on being tough on crime will keep them away from harm. Shift from civil society" to security society" is also reflected in crime policy and rise of incarcerated offenders. The states just went through 40- 50 years of crime control model (3 strikes law). The prison industry is a new model of control that makes crime profitable. The pains of imprisonment (criminological aspect means that if you break the law, you need to feel the pain of prison). Corrections have become an industry where crime control fits into the economy through increases in: policing budgets, prison construction, legal aid etc. Over billion per year in canada is spent on the cjs.