CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Private Prison, Critical Criminology, Labeling Theory

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 101
• Professor: Hilary Todd

Document Summary

Explanations for the (cid:862)punitive turn(cid:863: explanations for the punitive turn, media, vi(cid:272)ti(cid:373)s" rights, prison industry growth of private prison (8% of incarcerated people in us), incarceration cost is really high (around 50,000~80,000) A critical criminology perspective: combination of marxist perspectives and labeling theory, capitalism is based on exploitation and class conflict, encompass a range of theories and perspectives that challenge inequality and oppressive treatment in the cjs. Critical criminology -the common ground: critical criminology encompasses many perspectives, radical, feminist, left-realist, post-modernist theories, no clear consensus. The origins of critical criminology: 1960s and 1970s, ci(cid:448)il rights (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s li(cid:271)eratio(cid:374) (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, a(cid:374)ti-vietnam movement. Interest in class relations: capitalism as producing social inequality. Neo-marxism: conflict theories, examine the struggle between social groups and the cjs. Integrationist perspective: moral panic, shift from marxism to neo-marxism can be traced to taylor, walton and young, marxist thinking combined with the interactionist perspective. Critical race theory: emerged in the 1970s, race is a social construction, post-colonial theory.