Seminar:
Community sanctions: theory and practice
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, 29 – 30 May 2014
TOM DAEMS
Ghent University, Belgium
[email protected]
OUTLINE OF THE SEMINAR
In this seminar we aim to introduce students to some major perspectives in the
sociology of punishment and (community) control. The first part addresses some
classical perspectives in the sociology of punishment (Durkheimian, Marxian, Eliasian
and Foucaultian themes) as well as in the sociology of social control, in particular the
work of Stanley Cohen. In the second part of the course we look more closely at
electronic monitoring (EM) and we will try to apply some of those ideas: how can we
make sense of recent developments on EM? For the second part of the seminar
students are invited to read one of the small articles in the special issue of Criminal
Justice Matters dealing with EM which will form the basis for our discussion.
SUGGESTED READINGS
Cohen, S. (1979). The punitive city: notes on the dispersal of social control.
Contemporary Crises, 3(4), 339-363.
Cohen, S. (1994). Social control and the politics of reconstruction. In: D. Nelken (ed)
The Futures of Criminology. London: Sage, 63-74.
Criminal Justice Matters, Special issue (n° 95, March 2014) on electronic monitoring, pp.
2-21.
Garland, D. (1991). Sociological Perspectives on Punishment. Crime and Justice: A
Review of Research, 14, 115-165.