CRM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: North American Free Trade Agreement, Travis Hirschi, Three-Strikes Law
8 Apr 2018
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Influence of the new right on criminal justice. Appreciate how the new right emerged out of a particular sociopolitical context. Outline the basic tenets and components of new right criminology. Analyze how the new right has impacted criminal justice. Critically evaluate the strengths, limitations, assumptions, and implications. Mid-1970s: world economic recession; followed by two decades of periodic economic slumps. Due to bad economic conditions, focus on economic efficiency and wealth creation. E. g. , canada"s recession in the 1980s open up free trade, establishment of. In order to do this, concerted attempts to reduce union power, welfare benefits. The idea was that the wealth created from these measures would benefit both the rich and the poor. But in reality: the rich got richer; the poor got poorer. Robert martinson and colleagues assessed all the evaluations of criminal rehabilitation/treatment programs (as informed by positivist perspectives) between 1945 and 1967.
