Jock Young Critical Criminology

Jock Young articles explains how critical criminology is even more useful in today’s time, “late modernity”, compared to the late 1900’s by how the critical criminology theory has been motivating the public to start expressing their opinions on issues “where oppressive relationships of class, age, gender and ethnicity” were real and to broadcast these issues to the public (as cited in Cartwright, 2011, p354). Young explains how critical criminology is not solitary as a “harbinger of the future” (as cited in Cartwright, 2011, p358) but critical criminology also had it’s necessary moments in the past which lead to its be use in the future. In Jock Young article Critical Criminology in the twenty-first century through the explanations of the “ironies, which served to turn establishment criminology on its head” (as cited in Cartwright, 2011, p356) (ironies were Self-fulfilment, Seriousness, Ontology, Decentering, Selectivity, …show more content…
Simpson article explains how race and gender are a way to understand why women may commit crime, but also the women’s social class can be a factor as well. Although we may think that social class is a 1900’s issue, social class is very relevant in today’s time because a person social class can explain how an individual’s upbringing had occurred. Simpson explains that “class, gender, and race are best understood as an intersecting system of dominance” but “power and hierarchy” are “determined by class” (as cited in Cartwright, 2011, p390-391). How much power a woman has in her life, the culture she was surrounded by, and her race are all intertwining systems that determine if she goes into the criminal system; why, because these factors influence what women will do to have what she