We have been talking about in class about McDonaldization
and how it has an effect on our society. We see forms of McDonaldization
everywhere around in today’s world. A big example of one of the first examples
of this was Henry Ford and the invention of the assembly line and California’s
Three Strikes Law. According to the McDonaldization of America’s Police Courts
and Corrections, they say that the three strike law was made to increase the
efficiency of the criminal justice process , but we know that is has had the
total opposite effect. (Robinson,78)
(Example of one of the first assembly lines)
http://youtu.be/IXkxl8dSXb4
The Mcdonaldization process represents the three components
of the criminal justice system. The criminal justice system relies on these
specific departments the police, courts and corrections each system containing
a form of McDonaldization. The police are responsible for apprehending
offenders in the system. The courts being responsible for determining the
punishment factors and the correctional system being here to carry out the
sentencing of the courts. All of these systems being involved in an assembly
line such as the Ford T Model and McDonalds restaurants. I’m going to focus
more on the prison impact of our society. A lot of people don’t agree with the
fact that businesses are expanding due to the outrageous costs to increase
prisons. To run a prison is no easy job, there are a number of people such as
the warden, correctional officers and inmates who impact the prison systems. The
assembly line of a prison starts at the police making and arrest up to the
courts sentencing the offender and then finally putting the offender into the inmate
status. Once put into the system they are then watched by correctional officers
who are watched by the sergeants, lieutenants and chiefs who are then watched
over by the warden and it doesn’t even stop there the line goes all the way up
to the director of the prison and the governor of the state.
We put all this money
into a prison and half the time we can get the same exact thing for less. Things
in every type of organization tends to get overlooked in many aspects. In ways
we can compare and contrast the sizes that McDonalds offers and the types of
security systems that prisons have to offer, maximum and super-max facilities. The
sizes tend to increase and the value decreases, making things seem a lot better
from individual’s perspectives. We build facilities that are over the top and
spend too much money on expensive equipment, but what they should be doing is
focusing on expanding and adding to facilities and improving space for inmates
to hopefully decrease overcrowding in the prison systems.
Either way this McDonaldization effect can be either
positive or negative, but at least it’s a start to a development of a business
or system. We need to focus more on what really is important and is perhaps
overlooked in the criminal justice system. Maintaining order in law enforcement
is not only important to everyone not just police officers, judges and wardens,
the criminal justice system is the root cause of hopefully changing parts of
McDonaldization.
Video: http://youtu.be/IXkxl8dSXb4
Robinson, Matthew B. "McDonaldization
of America’s Police Courts and Corrections". pg. 77-78.
No comments:
Post a Comment