Postmodernism and Crime

Question 1

Basic ideas of postmodernism and Crime?

Answer 1

That classical social thinking present that history has shape and is a progressive timeline but postmodernists reject this and claim that these ideas are not applicable in modern day society and there are no meta narratives in the modern day.

Question 2

What does Henry and Milanovic say?

Answer 2

Argued that crime should be describes as something that causes harm - two types of harm:
- harms of reduction > immediate loss or harm is caused e.g. theft
- harms of repression > a crime that restricts future human development e.g. harms threatening human dignity, such as sexual harassment and racial abuse.

Question 3

What Lyotard say?

Answer 3

Argues scientific research is no longer done for good and to benefit society as a whole but to empower those with the money to fund it.
He offers examples; there is no cure for cancer and the existence of nuclear weapons.