LAWS 2302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Correctional Service Of Canada, Hybrid Offence, Classical Liberalism
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In conflict-theoretical explanations crime control is portrayed as a process, which is sensitive to the interests and maneuverings of the dominant class and elites. They believe that the state uses criminal punishment as a strategy and mechanism to control a class whose interests potentially are threatening to capitalist structures and elites. This means that the increased use of imprisonment is not a direct response to any rise in crime, but it is a motivated response to the perceived threat of crime posed by a swelling population of economically marginalized persons. One of the standard methods of legitimation is propaganda and political manipulation of names and titles. Examples include the (cid:498)criminal justice system(cid:499), (cid:498)ministry of justice(cid:499) and (cid:498)corrections canada(cid:499). Calling members of parliament (cid:498)honorable(cid:499) does not make them so, just as calling a criminal law system a (cid:498)justice system(cid:499) does not make it just.
