SOC212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Reform War, Empiricism, Feminist Epistemology
17 Jan 2013
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Youth offenders in saskatoon and manitoba found some models of chryslers were particularly easy to break into increase in auto-theft resulted in policies to make these cars more protected. Increasing surveillance cameras is an example of increasing guardianship. Controlling behavior with external policies and procedures. Criticism: invasion of privacy; assumes all offenders are rational actors; ignores expressive/heat-of-the-moment crimes: takes the motivated offender for granted (hirschi everyone is constantly motivated) **from external research** crime is unaffected by social causes (i. e. poverty, inequality, unemployment, etc. ) Represent a progressive movement of thought from how individuals are motivated and pushed into crime toward the political and economic causes of crime (from individualistic to societal level analyses) Crime and delinquency is a result of class struggle; the ruling class: defines what crime is, creates conditions that are conducive for lower class people to commit crime, devise machinery (cjs) for controlling behavior.
