CRIMINAL JUSTICE 3
magistrates, intendants and syndics. The syndics were responsible for taking inventory about the
people who were on lockdown, and would have them appear at a window to account for them.
Every aspects of their lives was controlled by those who were in power including the time they
ate, what they ate, how they interacted with others, when they could leave their house and even
when they could have access to medical care.
Soon enough the individuals in the town stopped acting independently since there was always
a set of rules that they were required to follow. The knowledge that they were constantly being
monitored led to them all acting in a similar way and they lost their individuality.
The main goal of carrying out these measures was to ensure that there was order in the town,
and to prevent the spread of the plague among the citizens. It served as a way to show that those
in power were aware of the problem and were doing their part in dealing with it by ensuring that
there was order in the town. In this situation, the people in power were always known. There was
never a doubt on anyone’s mind about who was in charge and everybody knew who to blame in
case there was a negative occurrence in the society that was the fault of those in power. Because
of this the people in power were always aware that the citizens had an influence on who could
lead them.
With time control of citizens has moved from obvious acts, like it was seen in the seventeenth
century when the citizens were kept on lockdown and closely monitored, to other methods that
are less obvious. When it comes to the ways that criminals were tried and punished, in the past
people were tried in public and most times their sentences would also be carried out in public.
But as time went by the trials and punishments became less public until in the modern day
society where the criminals are isolated entirely from the public. This method of punishment
ensures that the whole concept of punishment is not at the forefront of people’s consciousness,

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