CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Structural Marxism, Left Realism, Lumpenproletariat

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

Document Summary

Refuses the idea that criminal law is the embodiment of universal values. Negate this idea that criminal law reflects such universal values. Criminal law will only embody dominant morality, criminal law will be shaped by groups that are powerful enough to define their own norms as universal. Sellin, crime being a behaviour that is abnormal in the eyes of the law and not necessarily in the eyes of the actors, we need to study how law is shape. Conflict perspective is broad, wants to have a big picture, wants to show the cultural and instrumental dimension of law making. Criminal law is a tool to maintain the conditions to . What is at stake is revolution, it"s not about changing criminal justice institutions, its about revolutionalizing societies. Marx, maintain private interest; it is not to protect everyone, it is to protect the interest of the bourgeoisie.