Modernity and Mass Incarceration

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…