ISS 3420 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Conflict Theories, Corporate Crime, Resocialization

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Interdisciplinary Social Science
• Course: ISS 3420
• Professor: Stephen Lewis

Document Summary

Through successful socialization, a bond forms between individuals and social groups. Attachment - significant people if your life. Involvement - could be involvement in religion. Belief - picking a religion to believe. Non intervention or diversion - ycja do nothing instructions for police on youth crime. Decriminalize - marijuana and prostitution (take drugs out of the justice system) Deinstitutionalize - not putting people in jail. Society is composed of diverse social groups with different definitions of right and wrong. Conflict is a fundamental aspect of social life and different groups compete for power, wealth etc. Laws are created by the powerful to protect their own interests. Are link to society"s unequal distribution of money, power, education, social prestige. Inequality and unequal power central to understanding crime and its control. Focus should be directed at rule-makers not rule-breakers. General rebellion against norms, values and activities of mainstream society. Radical, critical, new, marxist criminology - ian taylor, paul walton and jack young.