You should complete all three tasks below. The word limit for the assignment as a whole is 3,000 words.
Question 1 Radical criminology assumes that the ultimate purpose of criminal justice is to maintain the existing social structure, and specifically the class structure. Yet most of its work involves dealing with offences and victimisation that take place within the working class. How can we explain this? (1000 words) (33 marks) (LOs 1 – 5)
Question 2 Describe Foucault’s concept of power / knowledge and critically assess how we can apply this concept to our understanding of crime and criminal justice today. (1000 words) (33 marks) (LOs 1 – 5)
Question 3 In criminology we sometimes make a distinction between ‘instrumental’ and ‘expressive’ violence on the basis that these terms describe different motivations for using violence. Critically assess the extent to which this is a valid assumption. (1000 words) (34 marks)