AUSOC 225 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Critical Criminology
1 Oct 2018
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Should not fall into the trap of conceiving programs that work well within the existing criminal justice system. Critical criminologists should extend critique beyond these limits. Practice a transformative brand of critique that confronts inequalities and social suffering. Promises of more just outcomes/promises of justice. Non judgemental critical criminology would not make judgments on existing policy, programs, institutions or societal structures. It would suggest other ways of thinking about and being in the world. British criminologists introduced critical criminology in canada in 1973. Taylor, walton, and young recommend a fully social criminology that: We are missing the understanding of crime because we treat crime as a an event that is only between two people. Crime is more than just an event that occurs between individuals. Crime exists in a larger socio-economic context to understand crime fully, you need to look at all the institutions and how they work together and do not work together.
