CRJS 1001 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST
UPDATE (GRADED A+).
Does critical criminology take a conflict or consensus approach?
Conflict approach
Critical criminology advocate for......
Transformative change, adopt a critical social science position that is anti-positive, critiques and
examines normative boundaries of criminal, logical knowledge and its use to focus on the bigger picture
of social structures rather than individual determinants (trauma upbringing/childhood psychological
traits)
What is critical about critical criminology?
It promises to take the system to task, rather than tinker with its parts, practice is transformative brand
of critique that confronts qualities and social sufferings, "critical"and critical criminology implies the
transformation through promises of justice
Marxist Criminology
A form of conflict criminology which argues that there is a strong relationship between capitalism, class
conflict, and crime. The theory suggests that persons with political power and wealth create laws to
suppress the lower class.
Interrelations among the capitalist mode of production, state, law, and crime control
Bloody legislation: criminalized the proletariat
Law created to make the rich richer and the poor poorer
Capitalist mode of production
A political and economic order formed through attempts of social control of private property, extraction
and value, capitalist exploitation
What does government changes in policing coincide with?
Capitalist order in the 20th century: monetarism, neoliberalism, Keynesianism
Instrumental Marxism
The perspective that that the state and legal and political institutions make laws to to reflect the
interests of the upper class
Law is equated with class rule
, -the government is organized to serve the interests of the powerful/upper class
-Criminal law is an instrument of the ruling class
Critiques of Instrumental Marxism
Portrays the ruling class as homogenous, overly deterministic that economic base is the foundation of
the superstructure, ignore his constraints on the powers of the ruling class
Structural Marxism
opposes the instrumental marxism assumption that the state is the direct servant of the ruling class
Instead of this perspective, beliefs, and relative autonomy: ways to "support" the proletariat, acts as an
intervention for revolution to keep people calm/quiet.
The laws are enacted to not represent immediate interests of capitalist class
Ways to mediate and avoid revolution x
-Union laws and worker right
-Minimum wage (EX: increased minimum wage, but took away employee discounts.)
Critiques of structural Marxism
Too much emphasis on structure rather than human agency to shape society, ignores other
considerations of gender and race, oppression; color and gender blind
Another word for post structuralism
Postmodernism
Foucault's 3 phases of thinking are
Archaeological phase, genealogical phase, the phase of ethics
The archaeological phase...
Saw law as a discourse to categorize and classify people, it examined developments in the human and
natural science to do this
How discourses emerge and transform into techniques of power
Reveals how seemingly neutral knowledge systems are but are actually mechanisms for organizing and
controlling social understanding
Genealogical phase
Examines how types of classifications and discourses turn into different mechanisms of discipline and
normalization (criminal justice system, education, prisons.)
The phase of ethics
UPDATE (GRADED A+).
Does critical criminology take a conflict or consensus approach?
Conflict approach
Critical criminology advocate for......
Transformative change, adopt a critical social science position that is anti-positive, critiques and
examines normative boundaries of criminal, logical knowledge and its use to focus on the bigger picture
of social structures rather than individual determinants (trauma upbringing/childhood psychological
traits)
What is critical about critical criminology?
It promises to take the system to task, rather than tinker with its parts, practice is transformative brand
of critique that confronts qualities and social sufferings, "critical"and critical criminology implies the
transformation through promises of justice
Marxist Criminology
A form of conflict criminology which argues that there is a strong relationship between capitalism, class
conflict, and crime. The theory suggests that persons with political power and wealth create laws to
suppress the lower class.
Interrelations among the capitalist mode of production, state, law, and crime control
Bloody legislation: criminalized the proletariat
Law created to make the rich richer and the poor poorer
Capitalist mode of production
A political and economic order formed through attempts of social control of private property, extraction
and value, capitalist exploitation
What does government changes in policing coincide with?
Capitalist order in the 20th century: monetarism, neoliberalism, Keynesianism
Instrumental Marxism
The perspective that that the state and legal and political institutions make laws to to reflect the
interests of the upper class
Law is equated with class rule
, -the government is organized to serve the interests of the powerful/upper class
-Criminal law is an instrument of the ruling class
Critiques of Instrumental Marxism
Portrays the ruling class as homogenous, overly deterministic that economic base is the foundation of
the superstructure, ignore his constraints on the powers of the ruling class
Structural Marxism
opposes the instrumental marxism assumption that the state is the direct servant of the ruling class
Instead of this perspective, beliefs, and relative autonomy: ways to "support" the proletariat, acts as an
intervention for revolution to keep people calm/quiet.
The laws are enacted to not represent immediate interests of capitalist class
Ways to mediate and avoid revolution x
-Union laws and worker right
-Minimum wage (EX: increased minimum wage, but took away employee discounts.)
Critiques of structural Marxism
Too much emphasis on structure rather than human agency to shape society, ignores other
considerations of gender and race, oppression; color and gender blind
Another word for post structuralism
Postmodernism
Foucault's 3 phases of thinking are
Archaeological phase, genealogical phase, the phase of ethics
The archaeological phase...
Saw law as a discourse to categorize and classify people, it examined developments in the human and
natural science to do this
How discourses emerge and transform into techniques of power
Reveals how seemingly neutral knowledge systems are but are actually mechanisms for organizing and
controlling social understanding
Genealogical phase
Examines how types of classifications and discourses turn into different mechanisms of discipline and
normalization (criminal justice system, education, prisons.)
The phase of ethics
