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Soc 372
Criminal Justice Exam 1
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Criminal Justice
Undergraduate 1
10/24/2011

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Term
Effacement
Definition
-striping the face away
-an example is the way juvenile criminals have become nothing but another data set in police records
-Erasing, concealing, or removing from memory.
-Literally “removing the face”
Term
Problematization
Definition
-The technical “translation” of people into measurable, manageable problems.
-Categorization of people
-lead to violence of abstraction
-example is for law enforcement it is easier to do this because it makes things more efficient
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Violence of Abstraction
Definition
-If you make people into an abstract idea
-It is a psychic violence
- Violence that is perpetuated against your feelings and emotional mental state
Term
Phenomenology
Definition
-Using aesthetic form (whether words or images to reveal what might otherwise be effaced.
-Phenomenology tries to get “to the things themselves” by asking what underlies phenomena beyond our thoughts and perception
-Because it is both morally and practically essential for any effective approach to crime, whether legal, academic or otherwise
Term
Exoticizing the Familiar
Definition
-taking everyday life events and stripping away from them the normal aspect
-looking at your situation as a stranger
Term
Tragedy of Power
Definition
-Violet with your power
-Power in politics is going to hurt someone
-frequently hurts the poor and minorities
Term
The stranger
Definition
-Close in proximity but still a stranger or unknown
-Orangutan
-Unique thing in the change of how societies form
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Dialetic
Definition
-the meeting of two ideas
-two opposing forces, a thesis and an antithesis, combine to form a new reality, a synthesis
Term
Taboo
Definition
-Something that is reviled from societal norm
-Not all thing that are deviant are taboo
-All taboo things are deviant
-control social disorder by confronting ambiguity and categorizing it as “off limits
Term
Liminal States
Definition
-In between, states of uncertainty
-parole or trial period are examples
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Ritual Cleansing
Definition
-Purifying the things that are out of place
-Like removing criminal from streets.
Term
Culture of Fear
Definition
-Where fear is not really grounded on nothing
-Fear of fear itself
-Raw fear (terror) vs. respectful fear
Term
Dynamics of exclusion
Definition
-People are seemed unfit to fit in society so they are cast away
-Race and poverty, ex... minorities
-Exclude groups because of traits not because they are criminal
Term
Normalize of crime
Definition
-Crime is not normal
-crime will exist
-Crime gives us a notation where the value of socially acceptable things
-Without it we wouldn't know whats acceptable and what's not
-Durkheim would say we need to work on rehabilitation
Term
Norms and Order (Bowman)
Definition
-Order is the means by which we exclude people, like throwing them in prison
-Norms are used as a justification of the marginalization of groups
Term
What is the role of prisons
Definition
-In prison matter out of place
-Teach criminals to be criminals instead of rehabilitating them
Instead of learning how to be good citizens we teach them to be deviant
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