AJ 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Friedrich Engels, Proletariat

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Administration of Justice
• Course: AJ 2
• Professor: mauney

Document Summary

Critiques: tautological, different classes of criminal, people change. View that there are multiple independent paths to a criminal career and that there are different types and classes of offenders. Authority conflict pathway: path to a criminal career that begins with early stubborn behavior and defiance of parents. Covert pathway: path to a criminal career that begins with minor underhanded behavior and progressed to property damage and theft. Overt pathway: path to a criminal career that begins with minor aggression, leads to physical fighting, and eventually escalates to violent crime. Critical criminology: the view that the cause of crime can b linked to economic, social, & political separation between groups in a societ7y. Those in lower stratums commit most of the crime because that are the obe"s who are most criminal. The criminal justice system is exclusive in its ideology and practice determined by power dynamics. Karl marx & friedrich engels ( worked 1835-1895)