Conflict Theory
State Crime
Concepts
Emerging Forms
Vocabulary
100
Founder of the Conflict Theory
Who is Karl Marx?
100
while mainline criminologists focus on the crimes of the poor and powerless, critical criminologists focus on law violations of these folks
What is the powerful (and rich 1%)
100
This is a political concept designed to protect the power and position of the upper classes at the expense of the poor.
What is Crime?
100
Crime is a function of relative deprivation, criminals prey on the poor
What is Left Realism?
100
here disapproval is extended to the offender's evil deeds, while at the same time they are cast as respected people who can be re-accepted by society.
What is Reintegrative Shaming?
200
Original and Most Important work setting out the Marxist/Conflict theory.
What is The Communist Manifesto (1848)
200
This occurs when government agents listen in on telephone conversations or intercept texts to stifle dissent and monitor political opponents.
What is Illegal Domestic Surveillance?
200
The owners of the means of production.
What is Capitalism bourgeoisie?
200
Capitalist system creates patriarchy, which oppresses women.
What is Critical Feminist Theory?
200
This is the process of unmasking the true purpose of law and justice.
What is Demystify?
300
Crime is a function of this...
What is class struggle?
300
army or police form death squads or armed vigilante groups to kill political opponents or dissidents
What is State Violence?
300
the people who do the actual labor
What is Proletariat?
300
Girls are controlled more closely than boys in traditional male-dominated households. This explains the gender differences in the crime rates.
What is Power-Control theory?
300
In the Dialectic method used by Marx, Hegel states that the idea in an argument is called this
What is Thesis?
400
the Capitalist systems emphasis on these two things produces an economic and social environment in which crime is inevitable.
What are competition and wealth?
400
when a state agency works with private organizations or people to prefer those with economic power
What is State-Corporate Crime?
400
These folks view criminal law and the criminal justice system solely as instruments for controlling the poor.
who are Instrumental theorists?
400
Peace and humanism can reduce crime; conflict resolution strategies cn work.
What is Peacemaking Criminology?
400
for every idea, or thesis, an opposite argument exists, which is this.
What is Antithesis?
500
Two presidential candidates who have at least a partially Marxist message--the capitalists are sending factories to Mexico and China to get cheep labor, and the middle class is becoming poor.
Who are Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump?
500
when the state uses torture and imprisonment to control political opponents, deny basic civil rights, holding citizens with no trial, break up peaceful domonstrations
What is Human Rights Violations?
500
a system developed in which men's work was valued and women's work was devalued.
What is Patriarchal or Critical Feminism
500
This concept involves shame, reintegration, non-punitive strategies, reconciliation and restitution.
What is Restorative Justice?
500
In the Dialectic Method, since neither the thesis nor the antithesis can be accepted, the merger of the thesis and antithesis results in this.
What is Synthesis?
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