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CRITICAL CRIMINOLOGY
A form of criminology (the study of crime) using a conflict perspective of some kind: Marxism, feminism, political economy theory or critical theory. In all of these, the focus is on locating the genesis of crime and the interpretation of what is ‘justice’ within a structure of class and status inequalities. Law and the definition and punishment of crime are then seen as connected to a system of social inequality and as tools for the reproduction of this inequality. See: CLASSICAL CRIMINOLOGY / .

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