Punishment

Question 1

30 marker

Answer 1

• functionalism
• Marxism
• Foucault
• trends in punishment

Question 2

Functionalism: Durkheim

Answer 2

• function of punishment is to uphold social solidarity
• punishment expresses societies outrage
• trad society- retributive - severe and cruel
• modern society- restitutive- repairs damage of crime
  Ao3- trad sociétés also had restitutive

Question 3

Marxism: capitalism and punishment

Answer 3

• punishment serves RC
• repressive state apparatus- defends RC property
• stops WC from fighting back
  Ao3- func too neg serves society as a whole

Question 4

Foucault: surveillance

Answer 4

• surveillance increasingly common
• sovereign power - monarch power - visible punishment (public)
• disciplinary power - surveillance more efficient as power
• panopticon- behave at all times as don’t know when being watched
  Ao3- exaggerates control - resistance

Question 5

Trends in punishment

Answer 5

• move to tougher sentences for deterrent
• highest prison pop/overcrowding
• systematic imprisonment
• trend to transcarceration cycle of control
  Ao3- prisons make people worse