Society, Crime and Punishment

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The inexorable advance of science and technology has brought on new elements of risk to the safety and well being of man and society. This paper examines how the mechanisms of social control can create and reinforce social exclusion of specific categories of individuals within society, among them the mentally the ill and the youth. It looks at how, with science and technology coming up with new surprises everyday and the social, political and economic environments pulling up surprises of their own every now and then, we can expect more changes in the concepts and mechanisms of punishment and social control in the days ahead.

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Introduction
Age of Enlightenment
Effects of Technology
Modernism and Post-Modernism
Mechanisms of Social Control
Risk Management
Restorative Justice
Surveillance and Exclusion
Conclusion

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"Restorative justice is another penology product influenced by societal changes that deals mostly with the youth considered as part of a deviant culture. Its avowed objectives are to help youth offenders appreciate the consequences of their actions and the impact of such action on their victims, encourage youth offenders to make appropriate forms of reparations to their victims, and mediate a reconciliation between offender and victim based on a mutually agreeable arrangement with an eye on reintegrating the offender into the wider community. (McAlinden, 2005) Reintegration is thus another name for restorative justice."

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