SOCI 2P62 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Custodial Interrogation, Search Warrant, Nonverbal Communication

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Social control and the legal order: legitimated repression in a capitalist state. The criminalization process is an attempt within society to maintain or increase domestic and social order. The enactment and enforcement of law is a means of constructing and imposing a new definition of reality, designed to attain preserve desired beliefs and behaviors. Critical criminology examines the enactment and enforcement of law as an oppressive force utilized in a capitalist society to promote and stabilize existing economic-class relations. Within a capitalist society the legal rights and privileges are guaranteed to the powerful while the powerless yield to legal duties and obligations. These laws which presume to afford equal protection were initiated to represent and legitimize the societal goals imposed by the state. Political society is built upon a foundation of repressive force. Many crimes are invented to meet the needs of the state, not for the protection of its citizens.

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