The rise of the modern society Flashcards
An intro to criminology - Roger Hopkins Burke
What initiated the rise of the modern society?
The decline of the medieval society in Western Europe
Why was the authority of the aristocrats being questioned?
Because of their claims of natural superiority and their corrupt social practices
Societies were becoming….
more industrialised and urbanised, causing more fluid and anonymous interactions in human relationships.
The 4 origins of the modern society…
Emergence of humanist ideas and protestanism, the scientific revolution of the 19th century, the 18th century philosophical enlightenment and the evident superiority of modernist intellectual tradition over all others.
The modern society in politics
Growth of the centralised nation-state and the extension of beaurocratic forms of administration, surveillance and control.
The modern society in culture
There was a challenge to tradition in the name of rationality with emphasis on scientific and technical knowledge
Where the explanations of crime and criminal behaviour different?
Yes. the nature of criminal justice interventions were also different
Have traditional ways of explaining crime fully disappeared?
No
