SOCI 3810 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Governmentality
16 Jan 2017
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A concern with the criminality of the state. Conflict and change are what characterize social organization. Concentration of power and control in the hands of the owners of the means of production. The cause of crime is found in the structure of unequal class relations in a society. Marxist view encompasses both crimes of the powerful and crimes of the less powerful and each have their own underlying rationale. Legitimized power of the states are exercised. Crime is a rational response to the social conditions in which people live in. Prevention: adress the basic problem of the concentration of power in society since crime is seen to flourish inequality. Understands crime within its wider social and cultural context. Examines structural and political economic dimensions that produce criminal behaviour. Investigates relationship between crime and the prevailing mode of production. Questions the role of power and conflict in shaping crime and criminal justice.
