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- Title
The punishment industry in Canada.
- Authors
Friedenberg, Edgar Z.
- Abstract
The MacGuigan Report on Canadian Penitentiaries is criticized as an act of bad faith because it admits that prison does not work, then sets forth a series of recommendations for the continuation of penitentiaries. The report is further criticized for suggesting that the solution to a failure in authority is the assertion of more authority, and for locating authority with officials rather than in legal guarantees. Closing prisons would entail less social cost than do other social problems which we presently tolerate. However, changes are unlikely because prisons are part of "the politics of resentment" which characterize our society. Prisons maintain political and economic advantages at the expense of those they contain.
- Subjects
CANADA; CRIMINAL justice system; JUSTICE administration; CRIMINAL law; IMPRISONMENT; SOCIAL problems
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1980, Vol 5, Issue 3, p273
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3340178