Sociology 2267A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Critical Criminology, Human Capital, Risk Society
15 Mar 2018
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Scholarship on crime and injustice that seeks to examine and alter inequalities, marginalization, and social exclusion: marx/engels: capitalism is the root of crime, capitalist societies are age graded, resulting in youth being more vulnerable to engage in. Structures and relations of control economic property crime. Looks at: criminal justice processes and how they contribute to structural inequalities that marginalize young people, hierarchies of age, gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and ability in canadian society. Structures of power and oppression are the source of crime: always praxis (what is your responsibility/how do you contribute) Is dedicated to improving the lives of young people. Seeks to "take the system to task rather than tinker with its parts" Sensationalized media representations of youth crime fuel public demand for intrusive and carceral approaches. In canada, aboriginal peoples are more likely to be detained in state institutions and to be impoverished and anchored in undesirable/outcast spaces: eoa east of adelaide, london.
