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What is the purpose of imprisonment? CRIME CONTROL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE CRM020C075S What is the purpose of imprisonment? Punishment is depicted as an intense collective phenomenon driven by irrational forces. It was seen as rituals expressing the furious moral outrage of the group against those who had violated its sacred moral order. Edward Glover (1931) argued that punishment was sadistic and a displacement activity. Imprisonment is seen as an intimidating relationship between the state and the offender, which is the central image underlying many critical studies of imposing penalty. It can also be represented as a legal procedure, a form of power, an instrument of class domination, an expression of collective feeling, a moral action, a ritual event or an embodiment of a certain sensibility. Imprisonment is society's settled means of dealing with certain needs, relationships, conflicts and problems which repeatedly recur and must be managed in an orderly and normative way if social relations are to be reasonably...

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