CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Michel Foucault, Critical Criminology, English Canada
23 Jun 2019
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Draws attention to hidden and overlooked injustices. Promises to take the system to task, rather than tinker with its parts . Attempts to highlight inequalities, discrimination, and suffering. Does not work to make the system more efficient. Crime is part of wider socio-cultural context. Economic, political system has to be considered. Individual agency and social structure are interrelated. Power that operates on our day-to-day actions. Ex: driving to school is regulated by laws, policies, physical markers such as road signs. The organization of people in time and space. Direct or indirect observation of individuals" behaviours in order to elicit a desired outcome, such as conformity. Any attempt to shape behaviour according to some norms, for a variety of ends. Actuarial risk is a mode of treatment of certain events capable of occurring to a group of people. Influence on critical criminology: social problems become risks to be managed, not solved, risk thinking transforms cjs practices.
