CRM 1301 Study Guide - Final Guide: Racialization, Leilani Muir

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1301
• Professor: Christine Gervais

Document Summary

Content of each perspective/paradigm: define, aassumption, question, solution. Similarities among theories/paradigms: for demonic, classical, positivism, assumption=consensus. Treatment in cjs today= punishment: approach= reactive, positivism= partially proactive, target=individual (micro-level) Emphasis on individual is similar in all 3. Did they accomplish: partiality of the theories. Each paradigm and theory has their own point of interest- focus on certain aspect to get their point across. = minor reforms of system (tweaking"s of the system; very little that is accomplished) Solutions look very different, not about the person and changing the person, its about changing the community. Unparalleled shifts : look at commonalities but also difference, changes in how crime is viewed, explained, defined. Nature of punishments and justifications: cruel, unusual, human rights violations, what were the rationales. Consequences of power to punish: how it differs from power to prevent, various sources of power in place to define crime.