CJ511 - Nature of Crime

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Module 9 - Critical Criminology

Readings

  • Winfree and Abadinsky - Chapter 9
  • Online Reserves

Discussion Topics

Karl Marx - How do his theories apply to crime?
Can you provide examples of an effort to wage "peace on crime?"
What crimes did women commit in the past? Has this changed? Are women now engaging in "male" crimes?
How are women "kept in their place" through definitions of deviance and crime?

Module Links

Critical Criminology

Crime and Oppression

http://ppoint.future.easyspace.com/devtrc3.htm

http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/quinney.htm

http://www.critcrim.org/critpapers/quinney.htm

The Strengths and Weaknesses of Instrumental Marxism

http://www.anzwers.org/free/marx/index.html 

http://www.anzwers.org/free/marx/index.html

Is the Criminal Justice System Biased Against the Poor?

http://www.ncsociology.org/south.htm

http://www.nacdl.org/public.nsf/ChampionArticles/99sep02?OpenDocument

http://www.critcrim.org/critpapers/barak.htm

Structural Criminology

http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/301/301lect13.htm

Structural Marxism

http://www.unc.edu/courses/2000fall/jomc245-001/structural_marxism.html

Crime and Power Relations - John Hagan

http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/hagan.htm

Other Recent Developments in Radical Criminology

Left Realism

http://past.thenation.com/issue/990920/0920massing.shtml

http://www.raggedclaws.com/criticalrealism/

Peacemaking Criminology 

http://www.critcrim.org/peacemaking.htm

http://www.westga.edu/~jfuller/peace.html

http://www.andersonpublishing.com/criminal/catalog/corrections/1.shtml

http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim/pepinsky/pepinsky.html

Postmodern Criminology

http://www.tryoung.com/lectures/051techcrm7.htm

http://www.tryoung.com/journal-pomocrim/vol-1-intro/volindex.html

http://www.critcrim.org/critpapers/milovanovic_postmod.htm

http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/postmodern.html

Chaos Theory 

http://www.tryoung.com/chaos/chaosindex.html

http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=04EB8000

http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/dataproject.html

Anarchy Theory

http://burn.ucsd.edu/~anow/index2.html

Toward a Marxian Theory of Deviance - Spitzer

http://www.extend.indiana.edu/courses/soc/socs320b/lesson5/DISC5e.HTM

http://www.csudh.edu/dearhabermas/crcon03.htm

http://www.d.umn.edu/claweb/faculty/jhamlin/3305/spitzer.html

http://www.pscw.uva.nl/sociosite/TOPICS/sociologists.html#MARX

http://ppoint.future.easyspace.com/devtmarx.htm

Radical Criminology: An Explication - Bohm

http://www3.oup.co.uk/crimin/hdb/Volume_41/Issue_01/pdf/410150.pdf

http://ppoint.future.easyspace.com/devtrc1.htm

http://ppoint.future.easyspace.com/devtrc2.htm

http://ppoint.future.easyspace.com/devtrc3.htm

Nuts, Sluts, and Preverts - Liazos

http://www.d.umn.edu/~jhamlin1/liazoa.html

http://regisnet.regiscollege.edu/sociology/liazos.html

Feminist Criminologies

http://www.collegecourse.com/sou/crim/crim361/ch7.htm

What is Feminism?

http://datadump.icaap.org/cgi-bin/glossary/SocialDict/SocialDict?term=FEMINISM

http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/301/301lect14.htm

http://www.tulane.edu/~femtheory/journals/paper8.html

http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~jdouglas/1558abstract2.pdf

http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~jdouglas/final1558proposal11.pdf

Liberal Feminism and Criminology

http://datadump.icaap.org/cgi-bin/glossary/SocialDict/SocialDict?term=LIBERAL%20FEMINISM

http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/socgrad/apr99/0005.html

The Gender Gap in Crime

http://www.gendergap.com

Power-Control Theory

http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lc/dvlink.nsf/pages/mulder_report

http://www.umsl.edu/~rkeel/200/feminism.html

Radical Feminist Criminology

http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lc/dvlink.nsf/pages/mulder_report

Girls' Crime and Woman's Place - Chesney-Lind

http://www.umsl.edu/~rkeel/200/powcontr.html

http://www.d.umn.edu/~bmork/2306/Theories/BAMconflict2.htm

http://www.d.umn.edu/~bmork/2306/Theories/BAMconflict2.htm

The Romance of the Gang - The West Side Story Syndrome 

http://www.chesneylind.com/ 

http://www.osde.ca/Congres/4e_Congres/s34.pdf  

"The Best Place to Conquer Girls"

http://hs.debate.net/args/LD_JanFeb00/Chesney-Lin--Girls_Invisibility.html

Toward a Feminist Theory of Delinquency

http://www.chesneylind.com/

Criminalizing Girls' Survival

http://12.37.252.11/faculty/boutwell/jdch7.htm

Female Delinquency, Patriarchal Authority, and Family Courts  

http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/pubs/gender/state-hi.html

http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/pubs/gender/oview-3.html  

http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/pubs/gender/oview-2.html

Rejecting "Femininity" - Cooper

http://www.extend.indiana.edu/courses/soc/socs320b/lesson5/DISC5k.HTM

On the Backs of Working Prostitutes - Jolin

The Promiscuity-Chastity-Inequality Model of Prostitution

http://members.tripod.com/~danewe/susan.html  

http://womhist.binghamton.edu/aoc/intro.htm

http://www.victoria-woodhull.com/prostitute.htm  

http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/bios/17.html

The Prostitution Controversy Among Contemporary Feminists

http://www.zetetics.com/mac/vern.htm

The Sexual Equality First Approach

http://www.wrc.bc.ca/pornog.htm

Prostitution Policy and the Sexual Equality Perspective

http://www.bayswan.org/defining.html

Prostitution Policy and the Free Choice Perspective

http://www.freedomusa.org/coyotela/decrim.html

The Working Prostitute as Criminal

Appearance and Delinquency - Rosenbaum and Chesney-Lind

http://www.extend.indiana.edu/courses/soc/socs320b/lesson5/DISC5j.HTM

Women Who Kill - Gagne

http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lc/dvlink.nsf/pages/mulder_report

http://www.doc.state.ok.us/DOCS/OCJRC/OCJRC94/940650B.HTM  

http://www.aaets.org/arts/art58.htm http://www.aaets.org/arts/art58.htm

 

 
 
 

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