Critical Approaches to Crime and Deviance CRIM 302 (3)

Examines the relationships between crime, class and power. Critical analyses of traditional criminological theory and of conventional approaches to the problems of crime and punishment (such as neoliberalism). Various perspectives will be reviewed to further understand criminalization as a component of unequal structural relations, the politicization of law and policy in Canada (including differential approaches to understanding and addressing street, corporate, and State crime), and the role of the social scientist within the socio-political setting. Prerequisite: CRIM 101 and CRIM 104.