Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Interrogating criminal justice
- POWER
- Hutton - politicians introduce harsh penalties in belief they reduce crime and increase votes
- Quinney - Through law, a powerful ruling class is able to preserve social order to their own economic / social interests
- Crime control way of regulating perceived threats to existing relations of power
- Panopticon
- A central, unseen observer
- Never know when they are being observered
- Self - regulating behaviour, have to behave as if being observed
- Surveillance
- Widepsread use means less private space
- Potential for state interference over citizens
- Offers protection
- LOCAL / GLOBAL
- Usage of different justice models shows how global issues and trends influence nation states
- Punitive revival
- USA - Zero tolerance
- Baker & Roberts - Globalisation main contributor to international transfer of punitive policies
- Economic globalism
- Political globalism
- One states actions effect others thus state sovereignty lost its power
- Afghan illegal opium poppies
- Way in which justice is perceived and delivered varies according to geopgraphy, culture & politics
- HARM & VIOLENCE
- Crimes against humanity
- Box - Media images of dangerousness on young, poor & ethnic minority
- Most vulnerable to arrest
- Wacquant - racialised carceral patterning
- Penal system replaced ghetto with controlling black Americans
- INJUSTICES
- Human trafficking
- Victims in UK, Law treats them as criminals rather than harms which led them to being victims
- No focus on the traffickers
- Opium poppies
- Destroying poppy farmers crops in Afghanistan
- Punishes crime of illegal poppy production
- Leaves farmer and family to starve
- Youth in Youth justice system
- Majority from bad social/ economic backgrounds
- Portrayal of youth in media harms them
- Victim of inequality and power struggle, harmed further by being negatively labelled
- Webster - African Caribbean youth compared to white
- More likely to be prosecuted
- More likely to be stopped
- Less likely to be cautioned
- More likely to be charged and remanded in custody, no bail
- More likely to be given custodial sentence
- PUNISHMENT
- RETRIBUTIVE
- 'Just deserts'
- Punishes past crimes, no consideration of future
- UTILITARIAN
- Rehab based
- Punishment used to prevent future crimes