CRIM 2650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Feminist School Of Criminology, Perspectivism, Scientism
14 Aug 2016
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1960s and 1970s: marxist criminology emerged and flourished in canada and the uk. There was a delay: the time it takes for the translation. 1: his work might have been taken up by other disciplines. Postmodern work can be traced back to french intellectuals. Postmodern theorizing was influential in the humanities (far more than social sciences) Shares common elements with other critical projects that were undertaken in criminology: criminologists argue that it is impossible to separate value from the research agenda: Post-modern is an extension and application of postmodern theory to criminology. Postmodernism: defies a consistent definitioninstead, postmodernism has multiple meaningsit might make more sense to understand it in terms of what it opposes Postmodern stands in opposition to modern assumptions and conceptualizations about the worldthese modern assumptions are those that underlie mainstream criminology. If we define postmodernism in relation to modernity, the modern, we understand postmodern theory as an attack on modernity.
