(6) Representations and Symbolism of Deviance

Question 1

2 aspects of cultural criminology

Answer 1

1) Self reflection = situation yourself in teh mundane theatres of crime (how you exist within these)
2) Attentive gaze = critically observe the assumptions of crime and deviance

Question 2

Carnival of Crime (Presdee): what 2 lives do we have?

Answer 2

First life= everyday life of sensibility, program, acts that are normal

Second life = drunk, high, what you do when you won’t be caught, pleasure in being Wicked

Question 3

What does the Carnival in Carnival of Crime represent?

Answer 3

one day when you dress up and everything is permitted  it’s what happens when the first and second life come together/ clash

Question 4

In sense8 what does sex represent

Answer 4

the second life (Carnival of Crime)

• orgies, extremes, obscenity etc

Question 5

Sex represents many things in SEnse 8 including (3 things)

Answer 5

1) connection (connecting sexual identity with criminalised activity)

2) hybros - subversion of historic stigmas
carnival - go go boys, making a mockery of conservatism

3) resistance - being deviant by engaging in deviant acts (Sex as a revolution)

Question 6

In sense8 how is sexual difference used?

Answer 6

as a commodity

Question 7

How are colonial aspects present within sense8?

Answer 7

the capitalist expansion of sexual deviance into the area of queerness shows an inherent tendency to colonise areas whilst commodify gender identities

Question 8

What are the implications of power from watching sense8?

Answer 8

western guilt and the Western gaze