CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Critical Criminology, Financial Crimes, Social Control Theory
13 Sep 2015
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Ratner"s definition of critical criminology is that although varied conceptions abound, we are all united around those premises that underscore the central role of power and conflict in shaping. It wanted to look how there are injustices in the system and how they can fix it. They will critique the system in order to understand what is going on. You are judging something based on certain criteria; it is looking at the deeper structural makeup of something. Recent works have relied heavily on theories developed by foucault, bourdieu, and derrida. Researchers have attempted to use this work to shake the foundations of our modern justice system, questioning the well-anchored logics that undermine it". Critical criminology has offered several critiques of conventional criminology and questions things that seem to be common sense. Conventional criminology supports the political and economical status quo. They weren"t questioning why things were the way they way.
