Chapter 9: Critical Theories

Question 1

Focused​ ​on​ ​the​ ​fact​ ​that​ ​the​ ​world​ ​operated​ ​and​ ​could​ ​be
discovered​ ​by​ ​science.​ ​The​ ​way​ ​the​ ​world functions was based on the scientific method.

Answer 1

Modern thought.

Question 2

Dealt with language​ ​and​ ​how​ ​we​ ​convey​ ​language.​ ​Came​ ​about
around​ ​WW2.​ ​Defined crime as ​arbitrary​ ​linguistic​ ​constructions.​ ​

Answer 2

Postmodern thought.

Question 3

Henry and Milovanovic’s postmodernism

Answer 3

Truth, knowledge, and facts. Truth is unknowable, knowledge is not cumulative, and facts are social constructions.

Question 4

Arrigo’s key propositions

Answer 4

Language is central​ ​to​ ​everything.​ ​partial​ ​knowledge
and​ ​provisional​ ​truth.deconstruction​ ​(pick​ ​apart​ ​the​ ​words,​ ​define​ ​them,​ ​figure​ ​out​ ​what​ ​they’re
saying,​ ​figure​ ​out​ ​what​ ​people​ ​are​ ​really​ ​trying​ ​to​ ​say​ ​when​ ​they​ ​speak​ ​them.)​ ​when​ ​a​ ​judge speaks is there an underlying message? Difference and possibilities.

Question 5

Labeling is language. It’s what you name people/the label you exist under.

Answer 5

West coast thoery

Question 6

Based on public consensus, it was overly deterministic (not looking at it through an imperialistic point of view)

Answer 6

Criticism of traditional criminology by new criminology.

Question 7

A collection of short stories. Not one theory. It was self declared as a new school of thought around 2003 but is not theoretically based.

Answer 7

Convict criminology

Question 8

Great Britain. Looking at the impact of crime more on the working class. The working man and the impact of crime on the working man.

Answer 8

Left realism.