CRI1103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Class Conflict, Restorative Justice, Liberal Feminism
CRI1103
Week 5 Criminology - Revision questions
The social process perspective – what are the main ideas of differential association theory?
In criminology, differential association is a theory developed by Edwin Sutherland proposing that through
interaction with others, individuals learn the values, attitudes, techniques, and motives for criminal
behaviour. The differential association theory is the most talked about of the learning theories of deviance.
How does neutralisation theory explain crime?
Neutralization Theory was introduced by Sykes and Matza in 1957, facing the then prevailing criminological
wisdom that offenders engage in crime because they adhere to an oppositional subcultural rule set that
values law breaking and violence, they rejected this perspective. Drift, justifying behaviours, justification.
Why is labelling negative in the context of the criminal justice system?
Labelling theory: people become criminals when significant members of society label them as such and they
accept those labels as a personal identity.
Handout –
What did you notice most about the article?
Economic perspective, 80k to service the prison. Social disorganisation theory, low economic areas likely to
make criminals, labelling theory, rational choice theory, classical theory – do the crime do the time.
How does it relate to what we have discussed so far?
Economic perspective, 80k to service the prison. Social disorganisation theory, low economic areas likely to
make criminals, labelling theory, rational choice theory, classical theory – do the crime do the time.
Conflict perspective
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Document Summary
In criminology, differential association is a theory developed by edwin sutherland proposing that through interaction with others, individuals learn the values, attitudes, techniques, and motives for criminal behaviour. The differential association theory is the most talked about of the learning theories of deviance. Labelling theory: people become criminals when significant members of society label them as such and they accept those labels as a personal identity. Social disorganisation theory, low economic areas likely to make criminals, labelling theory, rational choice theory, classical theory do the crime do the time. The conflict perspective suggests crime is a function of competition for limited resources and power. The conflict perspective comprises of marxist criminology and feminist criminology. Crim is of social origin, crime is defined by the upper class, selective enforcement of law, laws serve the needs of the ruling class and protect capitalist ideals. Capitalism - unequal distribution of wealth > crimes of the powerful > crimes of the not so powerful.
