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Critical, radical and feminist criminology
Power, class and gender behind criminal law. The 14 theories of the critical, radical and feminist approach, illustrated with pop-culture villains and explained with rigor.
14 theories14 with a case file
79Criminological MarxismThe real criminal isn't the pickpocket, but the system that creates the misery driving him. Capitalism as the root of crime.Daniel Plainview · There Will Be Blood80Radical Criminology / The New CriminologyWhat if crime were an act of rebellion? Stealing from the powerful as a protest against a state that only protects those at the top.Robin Hood · Robin Hood81Class Conflict TheoryLaws aren't neutral: those in power write them to protect what's theirs. Crime is, quite simply, whatever they decide to punish.Sr. Burns · The Simpsons82Left RealismStreet crime is no romantic myth: it's real and it hits the poor hardest, the very people it claims to defend.Franklin Saint · Snowfall84Feminist CriminologyWomen offend far less than men, often come to crime by way of victimization, and the system punishes them by a different yardstick. It took the discipline a century to ask why.Amy Dunne · Perdida85Patriarchy and Crime TheoryA justice system made by and for men, where the woman is doubly a victim: of the aggressor and of those who should protect her.Comandante Waterford · The Handmaid's Tale86Green CriminologyThe biggest crime won't fit in a cell: it's committed by corporations that poison rivers and burn forests, and almost never pay for it.Presidente Shinra · Final Fantasy VII87Queer CriminologyFor centuries, criminal law persecuted ways of loving and being. The uncomfortable question: who decides which identity is a "crime"?Ursula · The Little Mermaid88Peacemaking CriminologyWhat if we answered harm with repair instead of more punishment? The war on crime only breeds more violence.Bill · Kill Bill89Postcolonial CriminologyColonizers imposed their laws and called "criminals" those who already had their own. Justice as a tool of conquest.Coronel Kurtz · Apocalypse Now90Convict CriminologyCriminology told from inside the cell, by those who lived it. The truth of the penal system, with no academic filters.Red · The Shawshank Redemption91Political Economy of PunishmentPrisons fill up not according to crime, but according to the labor market. Punishment is also a business of cheap labor.Alcaide Norton · The Shawshank Redemption102Latin American Critical CriminologySeen from the margin, the worst of the penal system is not prison but what stays off the record: the selection that always falls on the same poor people and the violence the state carries out and denies.Hank Quinlan · Touch of Evil103Penal AbolitionismThe penal system doesn't resolve conflicts: it steals them from their owners and hands back pain. The question is no longer how to punish better, but what punishment is for.Inspector Javert · Les Misérables
Frequently asked questions
What are critical, radical and feminist criminology?
Power, class and gender behind criminal law. They bring together 14 criminological theories, 14 of them with a full case file on KRIMINIS.
Which theories does the critical, radical and feminist approach include?
Criminological Marxism, Radical Criminology / The New Criminology, Class Conflict Theory, Left Realism, Feminist Criminology, Patriarchy and Crime Theory, Green Criminology, Queer Criminology, Peacemaking Criminology, Postcolonial Criminology…