CRCJ 1000 Lecture 11: Week 11
22 Mar 2016
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Critical criminologies: the conflict perspective, marxist criminologies, left realism, feminist perspectives in criminology, anarchist criminologies. Focus on criminalization (instrumental and symbolic dimensions) Critique of criminal justice" (from reformism to anarchism) Above all, penal practices are shaped by the condition of the lower classes and the strategies adopted towards them by the governing lite. Punishment forms a key part of the policing and social policy measures which together regulate the poor and seek to manage problem populations. Law as evil instrument of private interest (marx) Crime is a matter of who can pin a label on whom, and underlying this socio-political process is the structure of social relations determined by the political economy (chambliss) Engels, the condition of the working class in england in 1844. The working-man lived in poverty and want, and saw that others were better off than he.
