CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Paradigm Shift, Mandatory Sentencing, Mccarthyism

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: Claudio Colaguori

Document Summary

Membership- notes facebook-academic criminology theory in social sciences refer to analytic model (usually model of human behaviour and society which seeks to explain deviance and crime) Understanding worlds around us knows as dominant views (have a political function) help those who obtain power keep that power by shaping public opinion. Pre scientific age in western society- church in control- ppl understood world as something driven by good and evil they thought odd behaviour were called by supernatural forces illusions used by ppl in control to maintain power. Belief system not based on evidence used to control population at large. Ppl who did not follow orders of churches were seen as threat to authority. Witch- those in power will use the idea women as a threat to keep power. Once targeted- it was the beginning of the end for you. Mass illusion can used to destroy those who threat people in power.