CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Marxist Feminism, Microsociology, Capital Accumulation

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
• Professor: Nicolas Carrier

Document Summary

Week 11 critical criminologies: the conflict perspective. Focus on criminalization (instrumental and symbolic dimensions) Critique of criminal justice" (from reformism and anarchism: marxist criminologies. Law as evil instrument of private interest (marx) Engels, the condition of the working class in england in 1844: primitive rebellion thesis, destruction of family by capitalism. Instrumental marxism: state as instrument of the bourgeoisie, law as a weapon of class rule, quinney"s typology, crimes of dominion. Crimes of government: crimes of accommodation. Crimes of resistance: relative autonomy of the state, criminalization as solution to symptoms of class conflict, law legitimizing capitalist social relations, limits set to worst excesses of exploitation, ruling through force and consent. Taylor, walton and young, the new criminology, 1973. Outcome of social reaction on the deviant"s further action. Reiman, the rich get richer and the poor get prison, 2009. Democratization of maintenance of order: feminist perspectives in criminology. Critiques of malestream criminology (done mostly by men, about men, for men)