SOC 3710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ulrich Beck, Michel Foucault, Restorative Justice

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3710
• Professor: Ryan Broll

Document Summary

An approach to studying crime that attempts to understand and alter inequality, marginalization, and social exclusion: activist approach. Focuses on how the criminal justice system contributes to structural inequality by further marginalizing young people. Mainstream critiques aim to improve the functioning and efficiency of the existing youth justice system critical criminologists look for alternatives to the current system: e. g. restorative justice. Critical criminologists critique the traditional justice system: by examining systematic issues of power and justices, by rejecting traditional assumptions of mainstream criminological theory, by focusing on structural inequalities within and outside of the criminal justice system. Space is allocated along class lines: city planning supports maintenance of existing class structures, the spaces that the most marginalized live are often intentionally hidden. Jacque derrida: justice (cid:862)justi(cid:272)e(cid:863) is future orie(cid:374)ted (cid:862)justi(cid:272)e s(cid:455)ste(cid:373)s(cid:863) are (cid:448)e(cid:374)gea(cid:374)(cid:272)e-oriented: poor and marginalized are disproportionately affects. Michael foucault: power (cid:862)po(cid:449)er(cid:863) is (cid:374)ot a(cid:271)solute; it is relatio(cid:374)al a(cid:374)d o(cid:374)l(cid:455) e(cid:448)ide(cid:374)(cid:272)ed (cid:449)he(cid:374) e(cid:454)er(cid:272)ised.