CRM 4302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Prison Abolition Movement, Restorative Justice, Realplayer

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 4302
• Professor: Vajmeh Tabibi

Document Summary

Focus on penal system ideology and its legitimacy. Crime: result of social order and punishment is not appropriate reaction. Social life cannot be regulated by criminal law. Prisoners sustain the prison economically and structurally (pic: gendered labour. Prison work was initiated to deal with prisoners" idleness and rehabilitation. Criminology: too narrow in its scope, insufficient to deal with human rights violation. Criminology in pa: analysis of the social conditions that give unwanted acts their peculiar meaning . Deconstructing penalty: deconstruct concepts such as crime, victim, offender. Crime: not illegal act, but criminalizable events: does not have ontological reality, harm created by crime, pa questions the state"s definition and responses to crime", not the victims" experiences. Pa places the solutions for community victimization within the context of that state recommunity. Pa do not seek creation of crime-free society: response to crime is the target, building safe and balanced society. Media: powerful tool of political manipulation and the formulation of public opinion.