CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: False Consciousness, Determinism, Class Conflict

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1301
• Professor: Christine Gervais

Document Summary

Mistreatments and abuses were possible because of that. Deviance is framed in a particular way to serve a certain. Consensus: people aren"t in agreement: social agreement about, morality, laws, criminal justice system operates to benefit majority (assumption) Therefore, definition of crime is not questioned (it is assumed and accepted; not questioned. : law is the codification of dominant social morals and values and its application functions to benefit the majority of the general public. Conflict: society in conflict, diversity in socialization, no consensus on morals, values or laws, definition of deviance = subjective, conflict results in social change. Law, in both its codification and its application, is not neutral but reflects the interests of powerful segments of society and functions to benefit certain populations at the expense of others. Some people are in advantage, and others in disadvantage. Criminalize threat to capital people who don"t confine obediently are criminalized (poorer people) and also those who create: crime = ideological construct (functional),