SOC205H5 Chapter Notes -Critical Criminology, Antonio Gramsci, Transformative Justice
Document Summary
Advocates of critical criminology have based their approach on intensive critique not just of mainstream criminology but also of state institutions that surround the discipline (i. e. law, schools, criminal justice system) Critical criminology draws from marxist theory and protest movements of its early years but has since broaden to included analyses from feminism, left realism, peacemaking, postmodernism etc. Intellectual posture around which a variety of criminological endeavors have been pursued. Critical criminology offers diverse solutions to problems of crime: from redefining crime to abolishing prisons, from challenging state institutions to calling restorative justice or transformative justice. Share desire to look not at individual flaws as means of explaining criminal behaviour but at society problems that create, breed and sustain criminals. Critical criminology rejects tougher laws and incarceration as short-term solutions and focuses on fundamental socio-economic and cultural change (complete structural transformation) Power and inequalities of race, class and gender play central role in understanding of crime and criminal justice system.
