postmodern crime

Question 1

Winlow

Answer 1

• Found that young working class men in northern cities had low status and insecure jobs.
• Found that the jobs often offered them no sense of identidy
• Binge drinking was a way to escape the boredom of work and violence was about status but also simply thrilling and exciting

Question 2

Foucault

Answer 2

Surveillance and crime control:

• Punishment used to be physical and carried out in public.
• Now punishment is physicological and is carried out in prisons behind closed doors
• Designed to change the way that people think to reduce the chances of them reoffending.

Sovereign power:
- Involves controlling people through CCTV and surveillance and expecting people to change their own behaviour