SOC 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Motor Vehicle Theft, Feminist School Of Criminology, Critical Criminology
Document Summary
Conflict radical: class or socioeconomic inequality critical criminology: focus on multiple types of criminology. Richard and ross introducing the new convict criminology . The us imprisons more people than any other country in the western world. 4 interrelated movements, factors and methodologies led to the birth. Convict voices have been forgotten, marginalized or simply ignored. Adapt to prison in immature and destructive ways. The correctional system was designed to maintain and encourage the existence of a stable and visible class of criminals. 1. first failure: they incarcerate hundreds of thousands of prisoners who are not violent and pose little if any threat to the community. 2. second: they hold people too long. 3. third: they don"t do more to rehabilitate these confined in them. Prison journalism written by convicts in prison newspapers. Books authored or edited by academics that may employ observation and/or interviews of criminal offenders or convicts. Monographs written by convicts about life in prison.
