New Criminology Perspective

• Who developed Radical Criminology in the UK?

  Taylor, Walton & Young
• What were T, W & Y critical of Marxism for?

  Too deterministic and structural + ignoring individual choice
• What were T, W & Y critical of Interactionism for?

  Focusing primarily on the viewpoint of the individual
• What were T, W & Y critical of Functionalism for?

  Over-emphasising the importance of social structures in determining ppl’s behaviour
• What was happening in the 1970s that could be called a ‘crisis of hegemony’ that was the background for TNC?

  ‘Resistance to capitalist oppression’ - anti-war protests, CR movement etc.
• Taylor, Walton & Young saw WC crime as a ‘political act of —‘

  Class consciousness
• What 3 methods do radical criminologists argue that the ruling class use to control WC crime?

  1. Laws
  2. Intensive policing
  3. Creating moral panics to ‘divide-and-rule’
• What AO2 can evidence this perspective? (HINT: Hall, mugging)

  Hall’s ‘Policing the Crisis’ - The crime of ’mugging’ was developed to prevent a proletariat uprising & a moral panic was made to give police more power
• Gilroy used the same multi-dimensional approach as TNC in his work ‘The Myth of Black Criminality’ - what did he say about Black crime in it?

  Black youths commit crime to protest against white, racist society
• How does Gilroy view the police in his ‘The Myth of Black Criminality’?

  A militant force occupying Black areas
• Whose study was ‘The Saints & The Roughnecks’?

  William Chambliss
• AO3: Who critiqued TNC for over-romanticising WC criminals as ‘Robin Hoods’?

  Jock Young
• AO3: What is the problem with TNC seeing crime as a ’political act of class consciousness’?

  Doesn’t explain crimes like DV, rape + c. abuse
• AO3: TNC is too g______ to explain crime + too i_________ to solve it.

  Too general + too idealistic
• AO3: Which Feminist argued that there’s no mentions of the patriarchy in TNC?

  Carlen