True/False
Punishment is a tool used to control crime.
False
What has driven private prison construction and the need to fill these up?
ideologies of racism and pursuit of profit
In order for Marxists' argument to be sustained they must recognize that class functions are combined with…
general social functions
The labor market determines the penal methods and their pattern of use.
True
What is one way that prisoners have constituted a potential source of profit?
In medical research
Name a social force that Rusche and Kirchheimer fail to recognize, that have played a huge role in shaping penal practices.
professional interests, institutional dynamics, criminological conception, religious and humanitarian reforms.
According to Pashukanis, penal institutions tie punishment to the logic of capitalist economy and not to the logic of “scientific penology.”
True
What was the point of the massive- prison building project in the 1980s?
to manage what the capitalist system had implicitly declared to have been a human surplus
Rusche and Kirchheimer correlate “economic interests” and penal outcomes without looking at the mechanisms that correlate both of these “interests”. Why must they be clearly described?
correlation between both may be viewed as a simple coincidence