CRI345 Study Guide - Final Guide: Warwick School, Detective Fiction, Henry Fielding

• School: UTSG
• Department: Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies
• Course: CRI345

Document Summary

1) positivist/empirical (pre 1960, late 19th c) Deep cynicism about state power & class. Social construction of crime & other categories. Instability of knowledge/truth, everything with a perspective, perfect objectivity/neutrality doesn"t exist. Positivist problems w/ stats but still indicative of trends in actual crime. Interactionist stats don"t reveal actual rates but good guide to activity w/in cjs. Civilizing process way in which european standards regard violence, manners, speech modified by changing thresholds of shame & repugnance social. 1970s, warwick school history from below. Hay courts combined terror & discretionary use of mercy to preserve elite hegemony. Poor citizens subvert legal system in imaginative ways. Week 2: medieval origins of the common law. Law applied varied based on personal relationships/status, locality. Cases requiring royal writs set procedures. Traditional oral, irregular, status distinctions, etc. People who could read/write more elite. Emphasis on precedent/stable rules need experts. Become more predictable but also more technical.