CRIM 3654 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Shoplifting, Neoliberalism, Corporate Crime
23 Dec 2014
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**a paragraph of the program and what it is about; goals and objectives** Neo-liberalism and acturaialism in context: blending of welfare and actuarial practices, logics and methods risk is important part from shift from liberalism to neo-liberalism; how risk came to be central to neo- liberalism; decentralizing the state. Preventing or mitigating crime in the future; 20-30 year shift why individuals commit crime and what gener they are, class position, their age. Thinking in terms of population level or group levels of risk and intervening to manage those risks; population rather than individual is the unit of analysis. Can be involved in prevention, corrections, effort to sort individuals into risk categories to determine periods of incapacitation, and the context of polciing and how the roles have changed from fighting crime to serving as information brokers. Friday october3 2014 driven by biologic of caution and influenced by fear, which are irrational and held to strong convictions.
