This free course, Introduction to critical criminology, provides a brief introduction to critical criminological thinking. It defines the ways in which critical criminologists take a 'critical stance' on the fundamental concepts, practices and institutions associated with crime and criminal justice systems.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- Mainstream or standard criminology
- Classical school of criminology
- Positivist school of criminology
- Positivism and causality
- The development of critical criminology
- The inheritance of radical criminology
- What does it mean to be critical?
- Critical analysis: Two examples
- Violence
- Governing through crime
- Key features of critical criminology
- Conclusion
- References
- Further reading
- Acknowledgements
