Throughout time the thought that offenders who committed a crime could be rehabilitated changed in a positive way, there was less use of severe punishment and more of a focus on rehabilitation ideals. This is not to say that the use of severe punishment disappeared. The extremely dangerous criminals were the ones that society deemed as a threat, and the less serious offender was looked at with hopes of change. When the serious criminals were within prison it was thought that conditions during this time needed to be at least decent. It was thought that if the offender could work while in prison to produce goods, then the prosperity outside the penal system would prosper (Melossi, …show more content…
There has been a tremendous amount of both criticisms as well as limitations presented in regards to Georg Rusche and Otto Kirchheimer’s indications and statements, especially within the text of, Punishment and Social Society. To first start out with the criticisms of the literature theorist Hogg (1979) presented within Gardner (1987) text, was that Rusche and Kirchheimer’s hypothesis was considered reductionism. To explain further, Hogg elaborates that Rusche and Kirchheimer actually placed more theoretical framework on the political/economical state than should have been. Hogg states that when viewing this literature, a standpoint on just a political-ideological viewpoint proposes a much stronger relationship between the incarceration rates as the predominant form of production (Gardner,