SOCI 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Restorative Justice, Michael Dukakis, Negative Campaigning
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What is the relation between your political party and your attitude toward crime. Politics and policy: policy, the setting of government objectives, passing, amending, repealing laws. Policy frameworks in criminal justice (thinking about criminal justice policy) Social responsibility perspective (misguiding: social not at fault here) Also called : (cid:862)tough o(cid:374) (cid:272)ri(cid:373)e(cid:863) (policy packages), (cid:862)la(cid:449) a(cid:374)d order(cid:863) Almost medicalized version of crime, social body crime is occurring and rooted in negative social circumstances: while designing policy we identify this pathology and its causes, designing polices that are liking to stamp out those root causes. Those root conditions are : social condition: unemployment, bad housing conditions, racism (cultural issues): policies can be based out of that. Investment: crime prevention : investing in education, family support, employment programs, afterschool activities for student. The ind is at fault and therefore must be punished. Not pushed through crime, instead you are tempted by it. In order to prevent crime, we want to have strong deterrence.
