SOC225 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Juvenile Court, Total Institution, Structural Level
7 Mar 2014
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Focuses on crime as a cultural, rather than a legal, construct. The thrill of engagement and the risk of getting caught. Draws our attention to the underlife mindlessly accepting the status quo. The underlife resists the conformist attitudes and argues against. When we do mindlessly accept the status quo it severly limits our freedom laws. Interested in rule-breaking that challenges the justness of laws. Moral entrepreneurs who are fighting the legitimacy of certain. Proposes a methodology founded upon the concept of attentive gaze immerse yourself as a researcher in the environments crime exist in. To get out and live like the people who experience crime do, to. Produces dangerous knowledge knowledge, everything that we take to be true and concrete, cultural criminology will question. The knowledge is dangerous because it questions all existing. Seeks to make more valid marginalized knowledge those who actually commit crime as well as the knowledge of the laypersons.
