CCJS 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Feminist School Of Criminology, Rita Simons, Lumpenproletariat

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CCJS 105
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Critical criminology: an umbrella term for a variety of theories united only by the assumption that conflict and power relations between various classes of people best characterize the nature of society. Class struggle: marxist concept stating that all history is the history of class struggles. Bourgeoisie: in marxism, the owners of means of production. Proletariat: the working class in the marxist theory. Lumpenproletariat: the lowest ( criminal class ) class in marxist theory. Primitive rebellion hypothesis: marxist idea that crime is simply the product of people rebelling against unjust and alienating social conditions. Alienation: a condition that describes the estrangement or distancing of individuals from something, such as another person or from society in general. Social sentiments: willem bonger"s proposition that individuals vary in their risk for crime because they vary in the innate social sentiments of altruism and egoism.