ADM JUS 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Pickpocketing, Motor Vehicle Theft, Symbolic Interactionism
6 Dec 2020
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Question the linear and positivist emphasis on causation . Question punitive responses to conventional crime, particularly those that dismiss. Question the targeting of specific groups for stricter control, specially based on. And question continued and often systematic practices of racism, sexism, and the larger issues of political and white-collar crime. race, class, and gender classism. The centrality of language in shaping reality and interaction. Because language structures thought, knowledge is partial, and truth is provisional. Deconstruction reveals how some claims to truth are privileged whereas others dismissed or ignored. Self-consciously political, this approach attempts to deconstruct the rhetorical of domination seen in the dominant ideology of crime and its control. 1995 edited volume called cultural criminology by jeff ferrell and clifford. Draws from multiple theoretical influences: symbolic interactionism, chicago. School criminology, merton, postmodernism, social constructionism, radical criminology, birmingham school, anarchism, etc.
