Pluralism

Question 1

Why are we so invested in crime, violence and deviance?

Answer 1

a way to experience it but from the safety of watching from home

Question 2

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

Answer 2

1st life: everyday life of sensibility (job/studies), not excessive
2nd life: things you shouldn’t be doing, goes beyond normal conduct

Question 3

What do we enjoy in our ‘2nd lives’ (Presdee - Carnival of Crime)?

Answer 3

we take pleasure in 2nd lives, enjoy breaking the rules

Question 4

From which life do the majority of transgressions emanate? (Presdee - Carnival of Crime)

Answer 4

2nd life!
- The second festive life expressed through carnival acts cannot be expressed in official rational life where it quickly becomes criminalised and demonised. It is a life that is expressed through the world of excess, obscenity and degradation.

Question 5

In light of the Carnival of Crime (Presdee), what do we need in terms of criminology?

Answer 5

a criminology that understands that crime itself has become a valuable consumer entertainment commodity, to be enjoyed and consumed daily

Question 6

in general, socially constructed limitations say

Answer 6

nothing about what an individual thinks

Question 7

In sense8, difference is used as

Answer 7

deviance

Question 8

What is sex used for in sense8?

Answer 8

connection, a form of ‘liquid love’ and celebration

Question 9

what is connected in sense8 with sex?

Answer 9

a duality with identity and criminality with sex

Question 10

What is sex representative of in sense8?

Answer 10

the second life (Carnival of Crime)
- engaging in what makes the sense8 vulnerable (revelling in risk), diving into excess, obscenity (eg through orgies)