CRIM 3657 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Deconstruction, Social Medicine, Governmentality

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 3657
• Professor: Robert Teixeira

Document Summary

Summer of the gun -term devised by david miller: described the increase in gun violence. Provokes punitive measures and a law-and-order stance on crime. One way to facilitate better policies and practices: the kind of knowledge that is produced: how crime is interpreted and handled. Praxis: integration of theory and practice together, making it part of research processes and what is produced from research processes: a melding of practice and knowledge. One effect of social justice praxis: provides a wider lens of view on events. We must think against current social political conditions toward more open futures, where there is an expansion of possibilities for young people, social institutions, and governing practices, to create new ways of participating in it. We must ask questions about practices, our knowledge claims, and discourses. Taking a critical approach entails interrogating power: ask questions about contemporary practices and knowledge claims.