SOC205H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Proletariat, Structural Inequality
Document Summary
Social context in which the theory was developed (and why it matters) Rejection of spiritual and religious ideas of crime, calculate risk and rewards. Biological theory, first crack at trying to reduce crime. Crime results when there is a disjuncture limited opportunities. Eugenics movement, during a time of a lot of racism. Conflict marxist viewed capitalist mode of production, bourgeois and the proletariat, the way crime is structured and the types of acts committed are created by the rich. Deal with systematic racism, with diversion courts, recognized structural inequality. Looks at how race and then later gender, are socially constructed and implications on crime, recognized structural inequality. Differences in gender, opportunities in the legal system, systematic oppression of women, Increased focus on women"s issues (in prisons, i. e. pregnancy, etc. ) New way of thinking about prisons as inequality, countering mass imprisonment, recognized interest groups, politicization of punishment.
