SOC205H5 Lecture 8: Lecture 8

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17 Mar 2014
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Postmodern criminal thought: the end of grand narratives. From this perspective, crime is not simply a violation of formal law or an objective fact that can be discovered by using the scientific methods of study. Crimes are linguistic constructions made by official intuitions. Laws are structures of domination that have led to increased repression rather that liberty. Can"t necessarily assumed everything is determined by economics mode of productions. Critical observers argued that the state"s law and order efforts at correcting individual behavior were directed at those who were least able to resist the official language of the state. Postmodernism opposed the intellectual and legal machinery of modernism and the conventional forms of legality, illegality and crime that criminology conventionally investigates. Interest in prison and crime and how prison came into being. Uses prisons to understand how larger power relations operate in society. Interest came out of resistance and revolt that was happening in europe in the 1960"s and.

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