SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Critical Criminology, Gartner, Left Realism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Mavis Morton

Document Summary

Motherhood fosters bond with conventional others and participation in conventional activities, it may be an important turning point in offending among women. Responsibilities that accompany mothering exert a prosocial effect on women"s lives, eben among disadvantaged, criminalized incarcerated women (yule, pare. Refers to a particular political orientation rather than to systematic coherent theory. Return to classical theory and biological positivism. War on crime and attach on the disorder of society. Two themes: responsibility for crime squarely on the individual, reasserting the importance of punishment in responding to crime. Inequality & unequal power generates conflict and change: Conflict linked to society"s unequal distribution of money, power, education, social value. Inequality and unequal power central to understanding crime and its control. Focus should be directed at rule-makers not rule-breakers. Conflict is a fundamental aspect of social life and different groups compete for power, wealth, etc. Laws are created by the powerful to protect their own interests.