CRJ 106 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Gustave De Beaumont, Elizabethan Era, Pillory
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Chapter 2: correctional history: ancient times colonial jails. Gustave de beaumont and alexis de tocqueville studied american correctional systems: able to see what americans were blind to. Women represent only a small fraction of the correctional population. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it . Political sentiments and the desire to make changes. Prison and other social institutions served as a social control mechanism to remove punishment from the public view and make the state appear more just. Intersection of class, race, age, and gender in shaping one"s experience in corrections. Question of how to use labor and technology. Good intentions not always translating into effective practice. Whipping, branding, mutilation, drowning, suffocation, executions, and banishment. Extent of punishment dependent on the wealth and status of the offended party/offender: rich could recompense; poor suffered bodily punishment. Punishment was understood as a necessary sacrifice to an aggrieved deity .
