Postmodern Theories Of Crime And Deviance

Question 1

Basic ideas of postmodern

Answer 1

Stress that society is changing so rapidly that is marked by chaos, uncertainty and Rick with society, huge diversity of groups with different lifestyles and interests
Growing individualism expressed via consumer culture consumers make choices about their lifestyle values and identity that they adopt

Question 2

Crime according to post modernists

Answer 2

A social construction. Outdated and reflects the metanarrative of the law . Believe it’s necessary to go beyond the narrow legal detention of crime and develop a wider notion of crime

Question 3

Henry and milovanovic on postmodern crime

Answer 3

Suggest that the wider notion of social harm ought to be utilised instead of the outdated defection of crime
Suggest that the concept of crime should be replaced with social harm

Question 4

Henry & milovanovic; harms of reduction

Answer 4

When someone uses their power in a way which results in an immediant loss of possession or causes some form of harm in person . Would include controversial current norms of criminal offence

Question 5

Henry and milovanoic; harms of repression

Answer 5

Where individuals future growth and development is threatened. Behaviour which is harder for the police to prevent, disrespecting people of a particular culture

Question 6

Hate crime

Answer 6

Crime motivated by hostility or predjuice biased on disability race religion transgender identity or sexual orientation

Question 7

Bauman and Lyon on liquid surveillance

Answer 7

There are many forms of surveillance which enable them to be watched by the state. As a result surveillance becomes inevitable to us we are not aware we’re being watched
Changing the belief of the right to privacy no body should have anything to hide

Question 8

Reducing crime and social harm

Question 9

Why do Postmodernists argue that the law is outdated?

Answer 9

new types of crime emerging all the time, laws take too long to catch up, society is changing rapidly

Question 10

They use the concept of “social harm” instead - what does this mean?

Answer 10

rather than complex sets of laws which become outdated quickly, we should instead just consider whether an act causes harm