CRCJ 3001 Lecture Notes - Symbolic Interactionism, Homicide, Criminology
1 Dec 2020
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Conflict theory: theories that focus attention on struggles between individuals and/or groups in terms of power differentials, key concepts, conflict, power, criminalization, cannot necessarily explain why criminalization occurs. Importance of the 1960s to criminology and the university. Influence of marxism at changing the discussions around crime and criminality. Every single society through the existence of humans consist of a dialectical relationship between the universal and the particular: universal as in the ideal, the particular as in the reality. Human history is the relationship between the master and the slave: with the slave always winning. Determinism leads to violence and eventual revolution: crime is a symptom of conflict. Bonger believed that the human was innately social. Human nature was pro-social; capitalism produces an environment that corrupts human nature like control theorists, bonger traced crime in part to individual egoism. However, capitalism was itself the very source of the egoism.
