Midterm Flashcards
Anomie
Persons values and norms disappear leading to deviance
Governmentality
State distances itself from its role of protecting from risk (state focuses on bigger things rather than day to day living)
Hegemony
Elite manipulating the morals and values of the working class
Hyperreal
Blurred lines between fiction and realty (value and power)
Master status
Stats that holds highest perceived triumph/importance
Moral panics
Person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to society
Positivism
Post modernism
Science can measure phenomena and make universal explanations
We must reject the search for truth and knowledge
Socialism
The redistribution of wealth
Functionalism
Crime is natural and necessary
Social disorganization
Social cultural theory
Looks at crime rates and areas (crime zones)
Cultures teach criminal behaviour
Pluralism
Plurality of power in competing interest groups and political parties
Differential association
People learn deviance from friends
Chicago school
Deviance based on environment
Left realism
Right realism
Criminological research should be progressive and attainable (crime is specific to time, space and conditions)
All crime is bad all criminals are bad (get tough on crime)
Hagans typology (3 measures of seriousness)
4 kinds of deviance
How serious is the harm
How consensus is it?
Severity of punishment?
Consensus crime, conflict crime, social deviation, social diversion
Critical conflict perspective: group conflict
Thorstein sellin
George vold
Sellin - law defined by dominant groups
Vold - more groups in your life = more conflicts (different ways of thinking)
Symbolic interactionism
- Reality is constructed
- Meanings are communicated
Critical criminology
History
Societal problems create criminals not individual flaws
Late 60’s due to consensus approaches
Marx
Alienation of freedom
Norm conflict
Symbolic violence
Intangible barriers to happiness
Different groups have different norms
News to alienate and discredit our way of thinking
Instrumentalism Marxism
Structuralist Marxism
Elite directly involved
Maintain the system
Indirect benefits
Legit accumulation
Post modernism Derrida
Goal of postmodernists
Viewed the world as a series of signs that are created through language (Meaning is always temporal)
Develop a understanding of where one standing in relation to understanding
Muncie article
Reconceptualize crime
Recode crime
Redress *
Criminology needs to do more than just answer
Deconstruct the legality of crime
Crime foes beyond the law
- redefine our understanding of right and wrong
Dedifferentiation
Collapse of distinction and rise of media symbols
Abolitionism
Reducing prisons, capital punishment
