Austin T. Turk, who lived from 1934 to 2014, was an American sociologist and criminologist affiliated with the University of California, Riverside, recognized as one of the founding figures of conflict criminology. In his 1969 book Criminality and Legal Order he developed a theory of criminalization describing how conflict between legal authorities and the people subject to their decisions determines which acts come to be defined and enforced as crimes, and he extended this analysis to political crime in his 1982 book Political Criminality: The Defiance and Defense of Authority.
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Defining ContributionDeveloped a conflict theory of criminality drawing on Dahrendorf's analysis of institutional authority 1 Notable WorkCriminality and Legal Order (1969) 1 Sources
1. Conflict criminology - Wikipedia
Section discussing Austin Turk's conflict theory
Turk draws on the work of Ralf Dahrendorf, who expanded on Marxism's emphasis on the social relations of production as a key to understanding power and focused on the struggle in a modern industrial society for institutional authority.
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Turk, Austin. (1969). Criminality and Legal Order. Chicago: Rand McNally.
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