SOC216H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter GARL: Penology, Khosrow I
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Penal institutions and the processes of punishment are seen by penology as so many means to a fairly self-evident end: the reduction of crime rates and the restraint of individual criminals. Enlightenment and that has recently enjoyed something of a renaissance, as criminologistsand jurists are led to reexamine the normative foundations on which the penal system rests. This tradition sets up punishment as a distinctively moral problem, asking how penal sanctions can be justified, what their proper objectives should be, and under what circumstances they can reasonably be imposed. penological approach-indeed, it shares the same subject matter, adopts a similarly empirical or social scientific approach, and makes extensive use of penological materials in its analyses. Punishment and social solidarity: the durkheim perspective: according to emile durkheim, punishment is above all a moral. First, that a much wider population feels itself to be involved in the act of punishing, thus supplying the state institution with its social support and legitimacy.
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