SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Uniform Crime Reports, Queer Theory, Post-Structuralism
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Post-structuralist account: chapter into sociology , looking at the history of these big ideas, big concepts, big identities that are so important to our lives and how they change over time. Categories such as sex, gender, sexuality, race, etc: critiques essentialism and universalism, critiques binary accounts of gender and sexuality, critiques the normalcy/deviance paradigm, examines history of processes of normalization. History of crime as an object of scientific inquiry. Studying crime is studying the orders, the marginalized, the people on the outskirts of society, those that do not fall into the mainstream. The criminal code defines crime as: the intentional violation of criminal law without. Crime and criminal code defense and without excuse . Laws are enacted by the legislature, those who are elected. Looking at what is legal/illegal is part of the political process. (social movements, lobbyists, and political groups will attempt to change laws, take them away, or come up with new ones .
