Abstract
The sociology of punishment offers a framework for analyzing penal institutions that, potentially at least, can give a fuller and more realistic account than the punishment-as-crime-control approach of penological studies or the punishment-as-moral-problem approach of the philosophy of punishment. Sociological perspectives view punishment as a complex social institution, shaped by an ensemble of social and historical forces and having a range of effects that reach well beyond the population of offenders. The Durkheimian perspective interprets punishment as a morality-affirming, solidarity-producing mechanism grounded in collective sentiments. Marxist studies depict punishment as an economically conditioned state apparatus that plays an ideological and political role in ruling class domination. Foucault's work focuses on the specific technologies of power-knowledge that operate in the penal realm and links them to broader networks of discipline and regulation. The work of Norbert Elias points to the import...
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