HREQ 1800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Critical Criminology, Hermeneutics, Juvenile Delinquency

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1800
• Professor: Professor L.Visano

Document Summary

There are a lot of differences between normative and interpretive approaches. Normative approaches - provide a consensual view of society - a perspective that highlights fundamental agreements on rules and values that determine social life. A very consensual approach to the study of youth crime - there are agreements as far as law - you agree with the law. Talks about the consensual agreement, there is an agreement about laws, institutions, values. The interpretive accounts reject these deterministic or a priori assumptions. And, today we examine the conflict paradigms which underscore the centrality of social conflict and change in shaping political, social and cultural institutions. Youth crises of the 1960"s and 1970"s, 1990s, 2016, continuity and convergence within labelling and conflict approaches - there is no consensus. Conflict theorists concentrated on the power relations inherent in the. They argue, that youth crime is related to power, not social psychology, not biology, not the behaviour of the offender, rather the power.