CRM 2308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Class Consciousness, Complete Control, Invisible Hand
26 Jun 2018
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Canada was first country to illegalize environmental harm. Criminal legislation.
50s-70s did not see extreme poverty and homelessness as acceptable. 80s shift from
unacceptable to who cares (an individual failing). 1982 first homeless shelter opened.
Ideology change- moved from public good to individual good of people who were more
capable able to compete and contribute.
http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-15.31/
Final exam is not cumulative except article from this week (Cohen)
Social and Criminal Policy
Media is a cultural conduit, a funnel from where we receive things.
Good news sources: The guardian, New York Times, Al jazeera, John Oliver
Crime Politics, Ideology and the Allocation of Value
***Cohen’s article sets up the class, the relationship between crime and politics because
of big scale ideologies, what we see is important problematic and how we allocate value.
What we think of as crime.
Tools: policy, response ( criminalization etc..)
Policy
Expression of purpose or desired state:
Homelessness now: respond to everything the homeless do as it’s a criminal problem,
assumption is they are dangerous. We do not respond to homelessness, we see it as
inevitable.
Mental health and drug and alcohol issues are common in homelessness due to
coping/an escape/self medicating. Becomes a municipal problem where we give the
problem to the police.
Majority of people who vote in Canada think we have a generally good society. (Age
group who votes Elderly) See certain people as problematic, and areas as more
problematic.
Specific proposals: talking about a specific act.
A field or area of government activity:
Policy spaces economic policy criminal policy
growing polarization of the social classes (bigger gap).
Decisions of Government- Exceptional moments do result in real
change: 9/11 policy shifted radically, who we saw as citizens, rights and
liberty to be decimated.
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Formal Authorization: cabinet and only cabinet makes changes bring bills to parliament
and is passed. A Lot of decisions are made before it makes it to be seen. Lacks
legitimization
Policy Program:
Policy Output:
Policy Outcome: Disconnect between goals, or promise and the actual practice. Takes
time for a cultural shift.
Policy Process: the political process it is actually going through. In which our entire
government runs.
Policy Analysis: Can be just talked about, does not need to be acted on. Poverty is not a
political issue at the policy level but can still be talked about and analyzed.
Policy is whatever government decides to do or not to do (which is more common,
decided not to do something).
John Oliver “Prison” example of Cohen’s article
When Obama was president, The United states was trying to move away from
privatization of prisons. There's only so much the tax system could bear. Privatization is
paid by taxpayers.
Crime, Culture, Justice, Politics and Policy
Crime as social phenomenon
Recognizing and seeing someone as criminal is inherently a social process.
oWho and what is defined as criminal
How society responds
oThe place of crime in popular culture
Fundamental responsibility of government
oThe reason d’etre for the modern state
Criminal policy or social policy?
oSpot the difference
oHow does what we define as crime relate to how we practice and organize
our politics?
Political participation & democracy
The economy & societal priorities
Harm, danger, rightful response
Crime is inherently political. A social identification.
Reason the state is here we all agree to have the authority of the state to keep us safe and
secure. In any society the gov’t is there for law and order.
First Nations population is over policed than African American’s in the united states
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Negligent manslaughter
Workplace deaths are considered crimes; however, the only ones that are counted
are in which the employers are criminally negligent
DUI
The way we see danger is how we respond.
Causing death by criminal negligence
220 Every person who by criminal negligence causes death to another person is guilty of
an indictable offence and liable
(a) where a firearm is used in the commission of the offence, to
imprisonment for life and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a
term of four years; and
(b) in any other case, to imprisonment for life.
R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 220;
1995, c. 39, s. 141.
Domestic assault is not considered a crime in Canada; it is considered common assault
Domestic violence and sexual assault rates are rising, especially for this age group.
University is not the most dangerous place for sexual assault; in fact, women in
university are less likely to be assaulted than women who are not
Domestic violence protection laws in ontario
https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/S00033
Crime & Politics
Why crime and politics?
oPolitics and criminology intimately and inevitably connected
Cohen suggests a number of ways that politics influences criminology
1. Hidden politics of criminology:
oDevelopment of the field and key theoretical assumptions were influenced
by political realities, although these were often not explicitly
acknowledged
2. Politics of law and social control:
oCriminalization and enforcement are functions of the state, and social
control institutions were established by the state; thus, these have an
explicitly political nature, which criminological theories must account for
ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V5ckcTSYu8
John oliver (the Canadian Election) October 18, 2015
Increase of economic stressors = increase in domestic violence
90% is perpetrated by men, but men are not inherently violent, how can someone get
away with corporate harm.
Social control= political control
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Document Summary
If uottawa email does not work use email: lstinson@bell. net. Canada was first country to illegalize environmental harm. 50s-70s did not see extreme poverty and homelessness as acceptable. 80s shift from unacceptable to who cares (an individual failing). Ideology change- moved from public good to individual good of people who were more capable able to compete and contribute. http://laws-lois. justice. gc. ca/eng/acts/c-15. 31/ Final exam is not cumulative except article from this week (cohen) Media is a cultural conduit, a funnel from where we receive things. Good news sources: the guardian, new york times, al jazeera, john oliver. Crime politics, ideology and the allocation of value. ***cohen"s article sets up the class, the relationship between crime and politics because of big scale ideologies, what we see is important problematic and how we allocate value. Homelessness now: respond to everything the homeless do as it"s a criminal problem, assumption is they are dangerous. We do not respond to homelessness, we see it as inevitable.
