CRM/LAW C7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Scientific Method, Kevin Betts
26 May 2016
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Criminal justice theory: it"s time to ask why by peter kraska and john brent. Rules of thumb- standard way of thinking of things-mental shortcuts (heuristics) We are wired to have these mental shortcuts to categorize things and take information. Stereotypes: judgement about a certain group of people. Based on someone else"s notions that you have just acquired. Ways of thinking that cant be held to empirical stidies ideologies. Stereotypes, ideologies, heuristics all make up the cj system. Problem: despite over 30 years of research and development, field does not have recognizable body of theoretical scholarship about criminal justice system and crime control. Theory, by default, refers to theories explaining crime. Solution: criminal justice theoretical infrastructure would involve well-organized and usable collection of explanatory frameworks targeted at making theoretical sense of criminal justice system and crime control phenomena. Object of study=entire criminal justice apparatus and hosr of criminal control practices.
