Foundations of Critical Criminology – Week 9 Lecture The state was using crime as a means of weaponizing the resistance of social conflict. Marxian/Radical Criminology Crime is a product of capitalist society, (aggressiveness, selfishness, greed, pursuit of power, violence and want) “Cui bono” (In whose interests are laws made?) Assumes law and social control are…

Foundations of Critical Criminology – Week 8 Lecture Neo-Positivist Criminology (1840-Present) Scientific strategies required to control crime, not punitive measures, which are known to reduce recidivism or prevent crime. Crime is delinked from its social and political construction and becomes an autonomous fact inherent to the body or two cultural and social factors. Scientific specialists…

Foundations of Critical Criminology – Week 5 Lecture What is the Sociology of Knowledge? 1. It is the study of how ideas, beliefs, and processes for verifying knowledge are generated by groups. (Simply not any old set of ideas, some opinions and ideas carry more weight as they have a hierarchy of credibility) 2. Inherent…

Foundations of Critical Criminology – Week 1 Lecture Knowledge stimulation – Pleasure-Threat threshold (Endorphin threshold, Fight/Flight response) When you’re reaching a point of hitting a wall, and knowledge is challenging and difficult, result of body filling with cortisol) A professor is not a teacher? (Does not engage in Pedagogy), but does engage in adult education…

Foundations of Critical Criminology – Week 7 Lecture IMPORTANT: The TAKE HOME exam is going to be based on the issues of biological. Psychological, social, cultural and environmental determinism. There is NO such thing as DETERMINED WILL (it is a myth) humans will always have free will (No one is determined by culture, social conditions…

Foundations of Critical Criminology – Week 6 Lecture Section 25 of the Criminal Code – “The Police may break the law to uphold the law”, so the state gives itself permission to break the law (both behaviourally and definitionally). Then there’s nothing objectively real about crime. How dominant groups define what constitutes a crime (by…

Foundations of Critical Criminology – Week 3 Lecture Foundations of Criminology: Antiquity to the Enlightenment. Criminology is the “scientific” study of crime, and it has three foci: Lawmaking the breaking of law. Societal reaction. Criminology presumes that it is measuring an objective reality, but it’s really a social constructed reality. It is not something that…

Foundations of Critical Criminology – Week 2 Lecture John Hepburn Reading – “Crime does not simply exist; it is historically constituted” It’s created. But then its enforcement gives the impression that it has no history that it has always existed this way because we tend not to look at the construction of criminal law and…

FORD MOTOR COMPANY Section IV — Analysis of the Company’s Cost Position Compared to competitors and other companies with which you are familiar, evaluate the target companies cost position. Use some of the measures we have covered in class. Compare profit margins, inventory turn ratios, tangible net worth and other measures with benchmark companies to…

Exercise 2.5 Reading Creatively, Reading Critically Now that you’ve seen how the double-entry journal can help you analyze an image, let’s try it with a more familiar kind of text. I published the essay “The Importance of Writing Badly” some years ago, but I think it still expresses several of the main ideas behind this book. I’d…