HIST108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Critical Criminology, Black Death, Public Space
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The marxist perspective views crime as an outcome and reflection of basic class divisions in society (white, haines & asquith, 2012:118). Productive labour to fashion the world is what makes us human. In modern capitalism we are forced into it. Exploited by other people we don"t have a choice. Marx believes that there is no way that they would pay people what they would get for the product trying to make a profit. person would get paid as much to get. In criminological theory, society was beginning to be viewed as more pluralist, not a homogenous unitary whole. These ideas paved the way for more critical and conflict oriented views to emerge. Acknowledges power and social inequality in the construction of criminality. A reaction to earlier criminology that accepted core values and norms and interpreted deviance as deviance from consensus. Emerged in 1960s, a period of sustained critique of dominant institutions.
