CRIM1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Labeling Theory, Discourse Analysis, Cultural Geography

• School: University of Newcastle
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM1010
• Professor: Xanthe Mallet

Document Summary

For all critical postmodern criminologists- starting point is the notion that language structures thought. The idea that language and its structures limit and determine human knowledge or thought as well as through processes such as categorisation, memory and perception. Society is in a constant state of flux and change. Links to media criminology: crime is defined in terms of linguistic production, and relations of power that shape the nature of production. Focus on meaning, social difference and discourse analysis: moved away from old forms of radical criminology (marxism) Rather recognises the importance of intersections: complex relationships between class, gender, sex, class, race, ethnicity, ses, educational status, language. Some see history as important: other focus on realities of the present, how exercise of power engenders resistance. Universal feature - individuals seek power over others by gaining knowledge of them. Both interested in who defines crime: critical criminologists = concerned with the powerless.