CRIM 2653 Study Guide - Final Guide: Stanford Prison Experiment, Mike Hough, Critical Criminology
22 Apr 2016
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In the 1970s they chose the under- dogs. The critical criminology movement was largely founded on a combination of the critique of positivistic , policy-oriented criminology, and a growing awareness of the increasing levels of inequality in contemporary western democracies. It was not the case, then, that researchers turned their backs on statistics or empirical information. It was rather that they became aware of the limitations of this information. In fact, their growing awareness of these levels of inequality was based at least at first on official statistics. The qualitative movement sought other ways of understanding the processes of crime and deviance under the assumption that official policy had failed to garner an adequate understanding of the contemporary criminal and his/her victims. A deeper, or thicker, description of the social interactions around crime and deviance was required, and this gave rise to the qualitative analysis. (topic 5 power points)
