amos wilson:
“the disciplines of criminology, the behavioral and social sciences, like all the other institutional disciplines in a racist/class society, seek to rationalize and present an apologia for the political status quo without losing respectability.”
“the disciplines of criminology, the behavioral and social sciences, like all the other institutional disciplines in a racist/class society, seek to rationalize and present an apologia for the political status quo without losing respectability.”
“to accomplish this they must, in effect, promote the decontextualization of crime and criminality. that is, they tend to divorce crime and criminality from their socioecological and psychohistorical contexts and present them as small-group, sub cultural, & personality problems.”
“standards explanations and approaches take crime out of the total context which sires it, out of the politico-economic context which gives it shape and form, and places it within the context of a mythical quasi-innate ‘criminal’ personality, class, subculture, or group.”
“how one can have an innately criminal personality or be a member of a quasi-innately criminal or subcultural group when what is deemed criminal changes over time and place?”
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