CRM 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Essentialism, Prentice Hall, Determinism
10 Oct 2017
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Four themes: mistrust (mispresenting, relativity of truth (victim, bystander perceptive, each person sees stuff different) how truth is constructed, criminology / sociology. Interpersonal relations (individual level, why is this person behaving like that or why they commit a certain crime) Group membership (subcultural and gangs, youth gang behaviour) Criminological problems (cultural issues, what it is about the behaviour, economic view, looking at things from a different lenses) Social situation / phenomenon concepts hypotheses theory. Paradigms (group of theories) set of theories, as a theory is just main focus of an idea: basic unit of consensus (something that is common) fundamental image of subject matter. Role of paradigms: define and legitimate problems, define rules of research activity, draw practitioners into the community. Structure = state & legislative power from religious powers. Deviance = utilitarian calculus; individual act: cause = hedo(cid:374)is(cid:373) (gai(cid:374) pain) Record of the offender, are they learning from past mistakes or not.
