CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Norman Mailer, Kai T. Erikson, Erving Goffman
13 Aug 2016
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The executioner"s song- book by norman mailer- real life execution of gary gilmore (shot and killed 2 people by police while on parole) norman mailer liked gary gilmore and believed he shouldn"t be executed. He was written to by another prisoner, jack henry abbot, serving for manslaughter, and encouraged for his release as well, believing he"d make a good author. Erich goode uses this in his round up the usual suspects to illustrate the limits to critical constructionism (sometimes criminals are just criminals) 1600s in search of new place to practice their christian beliefs found themselves surrounded by deviance. First the antinomian crisis then the quaker crisis them the witchcraft crisis . Erikson viewed the puritans as an example of durkheim"s reference even a society of saints would find deviance in their own. Moral entrepreneurs- howard becker talked about subjective nature of social problems, and explored hoe they came to be defines as such through process of social reaction.
