CRI386H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Crime Science, Scientific Socialism, Class Conflict
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Not only deep cultural history of this idea so deep that most of us think it"s sort of true. Something about basic idea that squallor, pollution, dirtiness, industrialization in certain kind of way causes crime. If it turns out to be true that certain pollutants cause crime relatively straightforward policy choice to make (eliminate/reduce pollutants to reduce crime) Deeper idea that somehow industrialization & its pollutions create certain conditions that we associate w/ crime. If specific chemical pollutants do cause crime how that stands in relation to how people feel about science. People suspicious of science likely to think that is the case. Science discovers pollutants & provides remedy to it. Science both creating problem & solving problem. Associated w/ deeper notion that industrialized squallor causes social dislocation, unhappiness, crime. Science cannot be on both sides of equation one version of idea involves complete/partial rejection of science & technology.
