Criminology 1

1. social statisticians

statistical research and the observation of the underlying regularities of social behaviour
rime as determined behaviour: the scientific study and treatment of the
crime as freely willed behaviour; justice through deterrence and proportionality in punishment
crime is normal and performs essential social functions
law-breaking as a manifestation of original sin and common sinfulness

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Moral panic and the creation of folk devils in response to ‘hegemonic crisis’: an example of a fully social theory of deviance?
Risk society: manufactured risks in the global society of fate; the genealogy of risk and the management of dangerousness Contradictory criminologies: criminals as rational consumers and/or threatening strangers
Relative deprivation and the reality of crime for the poor, working class people, women and ethnic minorities, especially in inner city areas
Class conflict, the ‘master institutions’ and ‘man fighting back’
The process of criminalization: social reaction to deviance and the adoption of a deviant identity; primary and secondary deviance

Crime as determined behaviour: the scientific study and treatment of the ‘criminal type’
Individual’s bond to society is weak or broken; later emphasis on a lack of self-control
Crime is normal and performs essential social functions
Crime as freely willed behaviour; justice through deterrence and proportionality in punishment
Learned techniques for neutralizing attachment to the dominant moral order

Crime as freely willed behaviour; justice through deterrence and proportionality in punishment
Investigation/exposure of processes of criminalization and the power of the authoritarian state
Moral panic and the creation of folk devils in response to ‘hegemonic crisis’: an example of a fully social theory of deviance?
Youth cultures, folk devils and the media
Risk society: manufactured risks in the global society of fate; the genealogy of risk and the management of dangerousness Contradictory criminologies: criminals as rational consumers and/or threatening strangers

Relative deprivation and the reality of crime for the poor, working class people, women and ethnic minorities, especially in inner city areas
Class conflict, the ‘master institutions’ and ‘man fighting back’
‘Broken windows’: crime, community failure and family breakdown; crime, welfare dependency and the underclass
Moral panic and the creation of folk devils in response to ‘hegemonic crisis’: an example of a fully social theory of deviance?
Social disorganization, anomie and racialized justice

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