The current growth in the prison population has contributed to the penal crisis. Discuss.
2. In 2015, 102 countries had completely abolished the death penalty. Critically evaluate the justifications for countries to retain the death penalty.
3. Critically assess whether families and children of prisoners are also ‘doing the time’.
4. To what extent, has restorative justice been an alternative method to reducing recidivism rates and protecting society?
5. Critically assess whether Immigration Detention Centres are a place of punishment, which has been dominated by forms of power.
6. To what extent is Shearing and Stenning’s (1984) description of how social control operates in Disneyworld a useful illustration of the structure of social control in contemporary society?