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| conservitive perspecitive - criminal justice |
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Definition
| individuals are responsible for their acts and should be held accountable. Rules, discipline, tradition, authority, and self control are high values. human nature is weak and punishment serves a good lesson |
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| conservatives (criminal justice) have five major concerns |
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Definition
1. excessive leniency towards law breakers
2. the system favors the rights of criminals over victims
3. society is losing respect for authority
4. cost of crime, conservatives resent money spent on free counsel, prison recreation, and rehab. BUT not the cost of prisons
5. permissiveness in society, they feel both parents and schools fail in punishing children (no punishment - repeat action)
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Term
| The liberal perspective of criminal justice |
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Definition
people are basically good and if they break the law it is probably becausethey have been corrupted by their social enviro. Liberals emphasize education and ind. reofrm.
Rehab is more important to re-educate |
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| The four major concerns for liberals (criminal justice) |
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Definition
1. Labeling and stigmatizeation
2. Over-institutionalization
3. Discriminatory bias
4.over criminalization |
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Term
| labeling and stigmatization |
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Definition
| labeling a person as a criminal will become a self fulfilling prophesy. Keep minor offenders out of the system! |
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| over-insituationalization |
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Definition
| the number of ppl locked up has increased by 328% from 1980 to 2002! Only dangeroud ppl should be locked up. |
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| ethnic minority persons are much more likely to be incarecerated than whites, and if they kill a white person, the murderer is much more likely to get the death sentence than if a minority person is killed |
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prostitution, gambling, discrimination against gays, and drug use.
these are victimless crimes, they offend ppl as immoral but do not pose a threat to society! |
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| The radical perspective of criminal justice |
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Definition
| a primary tool of the capitalistic ruling class to dominate and exploit the rest of the population. |
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Term
| what is the definition of crime |
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Definition
| behavior prohibited by law |
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