Instrumentalists Flashcards
How is the type of punishment determined?
Mode of production
What is the base?
Capitalism/ mode of production
What is the superstructure
Ideology
What is punishment
Control over the poor
How was punishment dealt with in the middle ages
Private vengeance
How was punishment dealt with in late middle ages?
Centralized authority, harsher punishments
How was punishment dealt with in Mercantalism
Galley slavery, labour
What happens when there is overpopulation in capitalism
Reserve army of labour
What happens to prison labour with reserve army of labour
Less profitable
What happens to crime rates with reserve army of labour
High crime rates
What is the theory that explains that prisons must be worse off than the worst conditions for the lowest class of proletariat
Theory of less elgibility
Problems
Deterministic
Evidence
