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Law Class, Fall 1999

Lecture Notes 6: Consensus and Conflict

California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Latest update: September 8, 1999
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Exercise 6: Conflict Theories of Crime:
The Origins of the System of Criminal Law

Adler describes the consensus and conflict theories of the origin of deviance and the resultant definitions of crime and construction of criminal laws.

  1. In what ways is conflict theory like postmodernism?