SOC205H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Governmentality, Postcolonialism, Moral Agency
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State somehow becomes necessary in defining what crime and law is. What do we say when someone asks what criminology is: limited understanding, assumed to be c. s. i. type of activity, our understanding of criminology changed over time as we learn more criminology. Traditional feminist narrative in criminology, presented by komack: what criminology is about (masculine enterprise, concerned with and explaining male criminology, exclusionary discipline ( add women and stir approach) By trying to bring women into the discussion, to include them, you are still creating different barriers. Tools in feminism/criminology that open up new possibilities. Reflexivity i. e. aspects of professor levinsky teaching a class: questioning the authority/ expert. Putting them as central; telling sympathetic stories. Kant- against public criminology; limiting criminology to crime and punishment: low pragmatic uses. All of them suggesting that neo-liberalism isn"t fully realized. Morality still embedded in structures that are seemingly amoral.
