SOC371H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Anomie, Entrust, Lowkey
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The changing penal landscape, risk and the punitive turn. Historical: penal welfarism the institutional arrangements that increasingly characterized the field from the 1890s to 1970s and shaped common sense of generations of policy makers, academics and practitioners. Penological: new changes appeared as a fundamental attack upon existing system. Indices of change the decline of the rehabilitative ideal: decline of rehabilitative ideal was first indication modernist framework was coming undone. The background affect of policy i now more frequently a collective anger and demand for retribution than commitment to a just socially engineered solution the return of the victim laws are passed and named for victims. They are the ones that mesh with most powerful institutions, allocate blame in popular ways and empower groups that currently command authority, esteem and resources. It serves as an alternative and as a net-widener: analyze how states can modify relationship between probation and imprisonment by changing sentencing outcomes and practices of probation supervision.
