Chapter 8: Social Conflict and Critical Criminology

The branch of criminology that holds that the cause of crime can be linked to economic, social, and politcal disparity. ome groups in society, particularly the wokring class and ethnic minorities, are seen as the most likely to suffer oppressive social relations based on class conflict and racism and hence to be more prone to criminal behavior

The ability to persons and groups to control the behaior of others, to shape public opinion, and to define deviance

The study of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the supranational penal system

Acts commited by state or government officals while holding their positions as government representatives

Covert military or paramilitary groups that carry out political assassinations

The difference between what workers produce and what they are paid, which goes to business owners as profits

Displacement of workers, pushing them outside the economic and social mainstream

The process of creaing a global economy through tansnational markets and political and legal systems

The theory that criminal law and the criminal jsutice system are capitalist instruments for controlling the lower class

To unmask the true purpose of law, justice, or other social institutions

The theory that criminal law and the criminal justice stystem are menas of defending and preserving the capitalist system

Approach that sees crime as a function of relative deprivation under capitalism and favors pragmatic, community based crime prevention and control

Efforts to prevent crime through community organization and youth involvment

Approach that explains both victimization and criminality among women in terms of gender inequality, patriarchy, and the explotation od women under capitalism

Male dominated