Criminological perspectives

This document discusses retributivism using the real life cases of Myra Hindley and Thompson and Venables.

This document goes through retribution and restitution as functions of the CJS rather than punishment.

My notes on this reading details what punishment is and the reductivist and retributivist perspectives and ideology. Examples include just deserts, reform, rehabilitation etc.

This is another document of my reading notes on this book containing some other ground base theories for criminology that you need to know for the course. This document includes deviance and labelling theory including Becker, Lemert and Cohen and the problems with this. It also includes subcultural theory, left realism, feminist criminology, the new criminology, its problems and more.

This reading note defines green criminology and details how green criminology and cultural criminology are linked. It also looks at media constructions and representations of environmental crime and risks such as the bottled water. Interesting read from a different perspective and useful for anyone studying green criminology.

This reading note details the corporate deconstruction and reconstruction of green crime, social construction of crime, environmental justice, green movements, as well as implications for green criminology. There are also theories for green criminology such as the corporate perspective and the environmental justice perspective. This would be useful for anyone wanting to understand green criminology.

This reading note details foucault's notion of rape and the feminine body. Cahill is a name that comes up often in criminology, so this reading is important especially for any topics related to sexual deviance or offences.

This reading details sexual deviance, referring to the DSM and other important perspectives such as Freud, Krafft-Ebing and more.

This reading details defensible space principles, such as the structure or layout of communities that helps residents control the area around their homes and helps people preserve their lifestyle and values. It talks about how low income areas have higher levels of crime in relation to building types, social factors etc. This is useful to gain a better understanding of the topic green criminology.