CRIM 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Restorative Justice, Bacon, Domestic Violence
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1960"s was the time of civil rights movement, the anti-vietnam war protests, the women"s liberation movement- people were challenging authority, challenging the social order, and asking why certain races, social classes, or genders were treated differently than others. Emergence of critical criminology is associated with two books, taylor, walton, and. Young"s co-authored 1973 book the new criminology, walton and yong"s 1975 co- edited book critical criminology. Emergence of feminist criminology is associated with 3 books published in 1975 rita. Simon"s women and crime, freda adler"s sister"s in crime and susan brownmiller"s. Earlier neo marxists are regarded as conflict theorists because they took the position that society was built on social conflict not on social consensus. Radical feminism, socialist feminism, marxist feminism are also based on the position that society is built on social conflict. Males being the dominant gender, females being oppressed= feminist theories. Argued that capitalism was to blame for the crime, eliminate capitalism, eliminate crime.