SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Anger Management, Due Process, Parens Patriae
4 Apr 2012
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Balance individual rights/liberty side vs. crime control (keeping the peace) Detailed specific studies of crime and victimization. Alternative methods of crime reduction i. e. drug use as a health care issue, not a criminal justice issue. Take into account those most affected by crime marginalised and working class. Left wing response to new right law and order political debate. Early versions : definitions of crime went uncontested, scope of victimization and response too narrow, no realistic penal policy, criminal law could be solution/liberating! Most recent versions lost its defining parameters no separate theory. Looks at who holds and wields power in society and questions how this impacts women. Developed in late 60"s and mid 70"s closely associated with the emergence of the second wave of feminism. No single theory, many strands of feminism. The criminal justice system is failing the girls had to take the law into their own hands.
