CRM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Conflict Theory, Deconstruction, Ralf Dahrendorf

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 101
• Professor: Daniel Alati

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Increasing demands to protect political, economic and religious interests evolving: changing levels of inequality, turk"s norm resistance, turk: interaction between authorities and subjects that disagree on some level of societal ordering, racial rights, open conflict. Marxist criminology: marxist criminologists ignore formal theory construction and its emphasis on empirical value-free testing, value neutral. Ignore a lot of conventions that many other theories follow. Humza javed: define the state law and the ruling class as a single entity. New directions in critical criminology (five ways crim. Humza javed: singular focus on inequality and power relations, criticism does not explain countries with crime that are not capitalist, irrational crime. Short answer: main theories: rational choice, social structure, social conflict, social, Exam review: trait theories: basic premise: crime is result of biological, psychological traits within the offender, main criticism: stereotyping policies, examples of social policy implications/strategies directly connected to trait theories, substance abuse clinics, mental health associations, hospitalization,