ATS1281 Study Guide - Final Guide: 2013 Savar Building Collapse, Picketing, Victimology
30 Jul 2018
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Radical and critical criminology social and political upheavals of the 1960s radical criminologists looking beyond questions of strain and anomie toward the structural inequalities and power relations of capitalist societies. Building on some of the insights of interactionism and labelling theory, a variety of radical criminological theories focused on the nature of criminalisation. Criminalisation = the process by which certain people become identified as criminal and what this has to tell us about the nature of contemporary social relations. Limitation of labelling theory (see week 8) nature and limitations of an (cid:858)u(cid:374)de(cid:396)dog so(cid:272)iet(cid:455)(cid:859) Horowitz and leibowitz (1968) increased the emphasis on the political nature of some deviant activity. They took the view that certain types of deviance could be seen as forms of social protest. Pearson suggested that the implication was that deviant behaviour (cid:858)should (cid:271)e a(cid:272)(cid:272)o(cid:396)ded political status. Or, more specifically, that deviance should be grasped as a primitive crypto- politi(cid:272)al a(cid:272)tio(cid:374). (cid:859)
