ATS1282 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Crime Prevention
Document Summary
Purpose: provide a basic overview of the ways in which the state intervenes in the lives of offenders, victims and members of community. Crime control logic: purpose of criminal justice institutions is controlling crime. Law and criminal justice operate on the basis of violence. Central measures in the enforcement of public order, containing dissent and establishing dominant moral and political regime or climate. Essential to understand the context within which the state exercises power. General describes social processes directed/associated with the regulation of human behaviour. Abstract problem of social order: what it is that enables the broad patterns of a society to continue in a uniform or non-conflicted way over time. Specific specific social interests, particular institutional processes, personnel and particular value judgements regarding the repressive or progressive aspects of social intervention. Sophisticated wide range of issues surrounding structures and human agency, institutions and individuals in order to make sense of the structuring of social reality.
