POSTMODERNISM PERSPECTIVE OF CRIME

Question 1

What is this approach?

Answer 1

Focuses on the unique nature of criminal acts

Question 2

Henry and Milovaniovic suggests two types of harm

Answer 2

• Harms of Reduction: crime causes immediate loss
• Harms of Repression: crime is used as a lack of respect

Question 3

Katz and Lyng: why do young people commit crime

Answer 3

Katz - crime is seductive
Lyng - edgework, young people love the thrill of crime

Question 4

One form of crime watching in accordance with the Postmodernist approach

Answer 4

Surveillance