ASSESSMENT 2: REFLECTIVE JOURNAL 2
SECTION 1
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Week 7: Online Activity
Marxist perspective in criminology provides with a critical approach of laws and their applications defining rime based on common humanity.
Week 8 - Online Activity
The overview of this week was race theory and postcolonial and their importance between race and crime and how this emphasis racism. Postcolonial theory offers more of a complex identity of colonising power.
Week 10 - Online Activity
In this week, we developed the relationship between feminist thought and criminology. We discussed the development of feminist critiques in criminology and the feminist perspectives in crime & criminology and focusing the gender nature of crime and deviance. We also looked at theories on male offending, aggression and violence has been linked to masculinity and the researchers and theorists are revealing mechanisms of hegemony by identifying in masculinities.
Week 11 - Online Activity
In this week, we focused on the work of Michel Foucault and his theories of power and subjectivity and their impacts on sexuality. The lecture was focused on discourses around sexual identity and heteronormative sexual desire as deviant.
Week 12 - Online Activity
This week we demonstrated culture and deviance as ‘Edgework’, a simple way of explaining criminal behaviour for example graffiti and base jumping in Australia. This kind of work is set within the field of cultural criminology. However, some criminologists have argued that some deviant activities can be risky experience of edgework.
SECTION 2
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Assessment 2: Reflective Journal 1
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