Criminology Exam Flashcards
What are the four major themes of the course?
- Four paradigms
- late modernity
- politics/media
- criminal justice institutions
What are the 4 paradigms
- Structural/Functionalist
- Conflict
- Interactionist
- Decoloniing/Southern
What are the two main theories we went over
Durkheim tradition/structural theories
Macro level theory
What is symbolic interactionsim
from macro to micro views
- how WE make meaning of things
- helps to understand everyday aspecs of policing, courts and prisons
What is conflict tradition
Assumes the opposite (there is not a shared consensus and there is a distinct difference in power)
- Marx theory thinks about economic power influencing crime and justice (rich v poor)
- involves cultural criminology, race theories and right and left viewed thinking
What is cultural criminology and race theories
more into post modern/late modern of conflict tradition
- Race theory: starts with the conflict of history, racial inequality
What is left realism
- Left: normative foundation in the conflict theory- unqueal distribution of who is the victim- actual experience of victims and the impact of structural inequalities
What do conflict theories center around
- centre normative goals
- structural and critical
- economic stress
- power
- left realism
Feminist criminology
- Connects to left realism and victomolgy
- Macro and micro theories
Criminology before feminism
gendered patterns of victimisation and experience of justice
What theories do macro and micro refer to
Macro: conflict theory
Mictro: interactionist theory
Southern Criminology
- Crime to be decolonised: political normative and imperical
- Implications for criminology: metropolitan thinking
- indigenous challenges
*can we fully account for historical legancies of colonial voilence? can we see criminology as a political movement?
Structual functionalism
What keeps society functioning and what role does dysfunction play?
- durkheim, anomie and strain
Conflict theory
Structural inequalities and power: class gender, race, crime as a normative disipline
- Marx, critical and radical criminology
Symbolic interactionism
- MICRO understanding of how identity, power and status is asserted and negotiated in everyday
- Weber, Becker, labelling theory
Decolonising theory/Southern
Macro and micro, normative and emperical, time (historically), knowledge and language
