modern conflict theories Flashcards
introduce modern conflict theories:
extend beyond class/capitalism
under those conditions - inequality becomes normal and impacts CJS, society, media, education, etc.
describe reform based approaches
sees CJS as flawed - needs reform
policing (defund)
prison system
rehabilitation
sentencing/drug policies
what is the Scandinavian model?
rehabilitation > retribution
access to outlets (yoga, sports, education, etc)
designed to not be physically oppressive
reduced Norway recidivism rates 50%
less violence with inmates
why is it hard to implement Scandinavian changes?
America uses prisoners as labourers (exploit) and society sees it as too lenient and injustice
they like punitive approach
what is peacemaking criminology?
addressing conditions causing crime (poverty, alienation, racism)
want to decriminalize acts
empathetic, non-violent, restorative response
against state violent/capital punish
what is critical race theory?
looks at the interplay of race, power, discrimination
challenges structural racism and white supremacy imbedded in social institutions
why are Indigenous/black populations overrepresented?
what does critical race theory challenge?
racial profiling, stop&frisk, media portrayals, institutionalized racism
what is the history of the ‘black criminal man’
sees black men as the ‘folk devil’
lusful, animalistic in 19th/20th cent.
drug users in 1920/30s
sexually deviant/race mixers 1950/60s
drug dealers crack epidemic Reagans 1980s
super-predators 1980/90s
gangster/thugs 1990-2000s
what is green criminology?
crimes against the environment (by powerful, government, corporations)
pollution, carbon emissions, deforestation, etc.
argue that these crimes are: overlooked, unpunished, severe
what is consumerist theory?
conditions of modern hyper-consumerism inspires criminology by: instability of desires/dissatisfaction, shift to instant gratification
visibility of products causes strain and engagement with risk and deviant behaviour
what is postmodern theory?
extension of symbolic interactionist POV
No universal truth - everything based on individual experience
what does postmodern theory say about language & knowledge?
they are loaded with meaning and power to shape reality
language defines power, experiences, identity and challenges how we see and define crime
no act is inherently criminal
not everyone has the power to define language
what is post structuralism?
analyzes the way power operates in society via language, knowledge, institutions
argues power permeates all levels of society from ground up
(kids believing parents and get older realizing they don’t know all)
(believing what doctors say because society given them that authority)
who’s work is post structuralism based of?
foucault
what did foucault argue?
academics have poisoned our senses of how history should be read or understood
