CRI205H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Trepanning, Cesare Beccaria, Social Inequality
16 Nov 2020
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Politicians, community leaders, common citizens typically want to reduce/eliminate crime. Some policy implications highly conservative, others left leaning. Some theories focus on individual, others how social change impact the nature and amount of criminal behaviour in our society: conflicting assumptions about human nature, and what people are like in natural state. Psychological therapy, drug therapy, addiction therapy, focus on individual offender. Some focus on changing local communities: reduce poverty, provide greater economic opportunity, provide leisure to keep schedule full. Some focus on changing society: think crime will exist until we completely change nature of social relations. Some focus on changing the law: conflict theory - we can reduce number of criminals by decriminalizing certain types of activities, must consider the practical limitations of theatrically derived policy recommendations. If everyone gets paid the same, social inequality reduced, crime reduced. Can it be implemented: many theories are valuable but vowed impractical in current realities of government funding.
