LS227 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Dialectic, Ethnography, Left Realism
10 Nov 2016
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Uses these critiques to formulate an alternative method in order to understand criminology and social conditions. Should extend critique beyond the limits of the current criminal justice system. Confronts social inequalities and attempts to create more just alternatives. Critique is a means to a transformative (just) ends. Critique implies were are comparing something against a standard. Critical criminology doesn"t offer just a judgement but offers other just ways to look at the world and form a criminal justice policy/system. 6. takes a dialectic approach to analyzing how individuals both in uence and are in uenced by dominant social structures. Critical criminology forced the revision of the new criminologies in canada and produced the journal crime and social justice. Left idealists - begin their inquiry into crime by looking at abstract premises rather than empirical work. Left realists - worked through local surveys of crime and victimization to try to focus on a more holistic view of crime.
