SOCI 2P61 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Conflict Theory, Historical Materialism, Unix System Iii
4 Jul 2015
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Readings linden, chapter 16 (organized crime: conflict theories and social structure. Basic questions and assumptions of mainstream conflict approaches identifying the way social class, crime, and social control are connected. Explaining the role government plays in creating a criminogenic environment identifying the relationship between personal or group power and the shaping of criminal law. Examining race and gender bias in justice system operations. Demystifying the relationship between a capitalistic, free-enterprise economy and crime rates. Showing how people and institutions misuse their political/social/media power to control the behavior of others and shape public opinion. Criminals and deviants are defined as powerless and oppressed people who threaten the interests of the ruling class. Definitions of deviance stem from the views of those who have the power to make and enforce deviance and crime. How critical conflict criminologists view the cause of crime. The historical materialist view of the structure of society.
