CRM 3301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: White Flight, Gary Becker, Centrality
11 Dec 2015
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Quinney used this term to characterize the rise of criminal justice. Stuart hall used the idea in policing the crisis to describe the desire for more police, cracking down on disorder, tough on crime. Significant change in how hirschi and control theories in general approach the concept of crime. Control theory instead of looking at crime and deviance as social problem, looks at it as an individual problem: problematize individual actions, crime isn"t questioned. Rational actor theory goes back to cesare beccaria, jeremy. First person to talk about crime and disorder in the context of. Developed theory of criminality that is rooted in utilitarian logic that says criminals are rational actors: italian school disagrees and says that criminals are abnormal, something wrong with them physically or mentally (lombroso) People engage in crime because the opportunities outweigh the costs. Crime is decided upon based on the cost/benefit analysis. Stopping crime must increase the cost and reduce the rewards.
