SOC205H5 Lecture Notes - Feminist School Of Criminology, Welfare Fraud, Second-Wave Feminism
Document Summary
Varieties of conflict theory: older assumptions that criminal law represented the collective view of the people was rejected. The idea that we give up our liberty. The collective views are formed so you can conform to the capitalistic norms. Rule that define criminal behaviour are defined by ruling class. Acts are defined as criminal because it is the interest of the ruling to define them. Members of the ruling class will be able to violate these laws with impunity while members of the subject class will be punished. A capitalistic societies industrialize and the gap between working class and bourgeoisie widen, penal law will expand in an effort to coerce the proletariat into submission: income cuts. Crime reduces surplus labor by creating employment not only for criminals but for law enforcers, welfare, workers, professors of criminology: creates underground and legal employment: police to stop illegals. These laws have continuously penalized the lower class and marked them as deviants.
