10156 Gender, Crime and Violence Weekly Tutorial Program Page 1 of 11 School of Social Sciences and Psychology Disciplines of Social Science 101558 Prisons and Punishment Weekly Reading and Tutorial Program TABLE OF CONTENTS These are hyperlinks that you can click on to go direct to each week Lecture: Introduction: Phases in Penalty/Penality – Key questions 2 Tutorial One: Philosophical Justifications for Punishment 2 Tutorial Two: Modernism, Prisons & Community Corrections 3 Tutorial Three: Mass Imprisonment, Dangerousness & Risk 5 Tutorial Four: Race, Gender & Punishment 6 Tutorial Five: Post-Correctional Outcomes & Restorative Justice 8 Lecture: Diverse punishment regimes (Pt 1): Military Justice 10 Lecture: Diverse punishment regimes (Pt2): Scandinavia,USA… 10
10156 Gender, Crime and Violence Weekly Tutorial Program Page 2 of 11 Introduction: Phases in Penalty/Penality – some key questions This introductory lecture will outline significant changes in penality and penalty from the 18th century to the end of the 20th century. In the following weeks we will consider various sociological explanations for the timing and form that these changes have taken. We will consider historical phases of punishment within Western societies: considering first a pre-modern infliction of bodily pain/death, then its replacement with the prison as a modern mode of punishment (of body and soul), through to the current, contradictory trends around punishment that see an emphasis on restorative justice sit alongside an ever increasing enthusiasm for more punitive sanctions and mass incarceration. We will consider what this tells us about changed attitudes and sensibilities towards punishment and also the changes this registers in the relationship between punishment, the individual, culture and society. Brief consideration will also be given to administrative matters, the structure of tutorials and assessments, and what is expected of you to ensure that you get the most out of this…