CRIM 3655 Lecture Notes - White-Collar Crime, Edwin Sutherland, Paradigm Shift
13 Dec 2013
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Green criminology is the 3rd attempt at a great paradigm shift in criminological thought. Paradigm shifts can occur when: 1) descriptions of the problem-solution" no longer seem adequate or new ways of. Seeing" mean that the problem-solutions simply look different: 2) new developments give rise to new problem0solutions that supersede the old ones, 3) defenders of the old paradigm either acknowledge the superiority of the new. Paradigms were originally used to explain the behaviour of scientists: shifted from human-centric to the big bang theory. A new truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it (kuhn) Argued that social science can"t have paradigm shifts because we argue about everything. Common basis of the paradigm that makes up academic criminology. Paradigm shifts are not just a matter of changing the way we look at things.
