postmodernism on crime

Question 1

crime is a social construction

Answer 1

• today’s world has diversity and fragmentation
• crime is based on legal definition
• doesn’t reflect postmodern diversity
• crime should be a wider concept of social harm

Question 2

types of harm

Answer 2

• harms of reduction - power used to cause a victim to experience immediate loss
• harms of repression - power used to restrict future human development