CRM 4302 Lecture 4: The unfinished

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 4302
• Professor: Vajmeh Tabibi

Document Summary

It must be different than the old system: two important elements of "real alternative" are, contradiction: in terms of goals and in terms of means. The "unfinished: an opposition may bring in a message which is either "foreign" or "integrated". Non-competing agreement: foreign: is separate and different from the old system (contradicts), for example: legislation of marijuana is foreign to the canadian governmental system. It"s non-competing contradiction because we know the consequences. At the beginning it was foreign, and then it was a competition by bringing in different information and then they don"t know the outcome. Integrated and suggested - to be abolitionist you need to be either this or non-competing contradiction) Integrated and fully formed: non-competing agreement, there is no competition and no contradiction. Language is related to power: language structures and define problems at hand, for example, in prisons, they call prisoners "inmate".