Modernity and Mass Incarceration
- Created by: iloveland
- Created on: 12-05-16 10:30
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Antiquity to Renaissance
- Punishment has changed over time
- Role of prisons
- Narrowing forms of punishment
- Used to have death penalty, public shamming and banishment
- Punishments used to be public
- Punishments used to be on the body- physical punishments such as beatings, etc
Medival England
- Became custodial, more coercive and punitive
- Rise of capitalism meant mass urban poor
- Rise in work houses
- Rise in deviance
- Punishment seen as sybolic- used to send a message to other deviant individuals
Emergence of Modern Prisons
- "Houses of Correction"
- Confinement and forced labour
- A non-judicial institute
- Often used as a poor relief
1779 Penietary…
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