POSTMODERNISM ON CRIME

Question 1

View on crime (KNOW)

Answer 1

Uninterested in patterns and structural cause
Simply a ‘social construction’
Necessary to go beyond narrow legal definition into justice, and respect for lifestyle choices

Question 2

Explaining crime (TEST)

Answer 2

Society individualism, diversity, chaos for explaining crime
Individual experience cannot be generalised
FREE WILL, conventional punishment (incarceration) no longer appropriate
SOCIAL NORMS CO-EXISTING

Question 3

HENRY AND MILOVANOVIC (KNOW)

Answer 3

Wider notion of social harm into 2 categories: Harms of reduction and repression

Reduction = Use of power results in immediate loss of possession/harm to victim (theft,murder)

Repression = Individuals growth and development threatened, harder to prevent/police (hate crime,sexual harassment)

Question 4

FOCAULT (KNOW)

Answer 4

Surveillance likely to become effective = regulate behaviour and reducing crime in contemp society
Being watched = Less likely to commit, higher chance of being caught

Question 5

BAUMAN AND LYON (KNOW)

Answer 5

Liquid surveillance = way to understand interaction w/ surveillance
I.e. mobile phones, passports
Willingly use + enables watch by state/organisations = TRANSPARENCY
UNCONSCIOUS OF SURVEILLANCE = ERODES CIVIL LIBERTY

Question 6

Conclusion

Answer 6

From Right to privacy to having nothing to hide = Surveillance as mechanism of social control