Application of criminology theories to movies

The Tracker The film also presents a critical question of which law is closest to a consensual perspective of justice: the fanatic or trackers? It reveals an Aboriginal perspective, which allows them to define and apply their own version of deviance onto white Australia with the colonial period. The film contains references to Positivism, Marxist criminology, Labelling theory, Republican Theory, Strain Theory, Classical Theory, New Right Criminology and Critical Criminology. The predominant theories throughout the …

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