What is the difference between conservative and radicals?
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1) Conservative criminology remains concerned with the causation of crime and punishment and correction of criminals, but radical criminology focuses on the legislation enacted by the ruling class, or the materialist analysis of law.
(2) The conservative criminologists explain deviance by reference to some social or personalpathology, but the radical criminologists argue that deviant action must always be examined in terms of political-economic structure of society, and in terms of the 'power elite' wanting to strengthen power of the state over the weak and the poor.
(3) While functional paradigm is dominant in conservative criminology, conflict paradigm is dominant in radical criminology.
(4) Conservative criminology attempts to correct and control the excesses of a punitive and repressive judicial system, but radical criminology does not take interest in the amelioration of environment or the building of a social work.
(5) The conservative criminologists characterise the social order as consensual, with a minority ofdeviants existing in society, the radical criminologists argue for the existence of diversity of values and various subcultures or of cultural diversity within the society.
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