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Mind Map by Sarah Mather, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Sarah Mather
almost 12 years ago
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Post-Modernism and Crime
- Vision of Socciety
- Diversity/hybridity
- Fragmentation
- Collapse of the
meta-narratives and social
structures e.g.
family/religion/education/class
- Variety of social groups
and lifestyles
- Individualism = increasing
- Lack of
community/obligation to
others
- Crime - Social
construct/traditional
theories are outdated
- Links to
globalisation/increasing
technology/development
- Diversity/hybridity
- Explaining Crime and Deviance
- Alternative view that is
critical of modern
approaches
- We live in a
fragmented social
structure
- There is a degree of
uncertainty in society today
- No clear notion of what is right/wrong
- Thus, leads to c+d
- Thus, leads to c+d
- Crime is an expression
of individualism
- Alternative view that is
critical of modern
approaches
- Levin and McDevitt (2002)
- Most crime/deviance is a result of
'thrill seeking'
- Psychological reward of exhilaration
and the thrill of making someone
suffer
- However, this does not explain why this
should provide thrills for only some of the
population, also, Fenwick and Haywood
(2002) people escape the dullness of
everyday routine and experience
self-expression/realisation
- Most crime/deviance is a result of
'thrill seeking'
- Control of crime
- Fragmentation of organisaed crime prevention and the emphasis
on private crime prevention/secutity firms/informal negihbourhood
watch schemes etc
- Informal crime control e.g.
"voluntary" use of Shari'ah courts in
the UK amongst sections of the
Muslim population reflects diversity
- Greater emphasis on surveillance e.g. CCTV, consumer trackong (links to a pick n
mix consumer culture etc. Also link to Foucault's Panoptican Prison Analogy which
s trying to be implemented into society today especially to crackdown on the
growing cyber crime
- Fragmentation of organisaed crime prevention and the emphasis
on private crime prevention/secutity firms/informal negihbourhood
watch schemes etc
- Strengths
- Recognizes that there are other factors to explain the causes of crime
- Can explain widespread contemporary developments
e.g. cctv/consumer tracking
- Explains the growing localism of crime
prevention strategies and how the police
respond to this
- Provides alternative
explanations for non-utilitarian
crime e.g. anti-social behaviour
- Recognizes that there are other factors to explain the causes of crime
- Weaknesses
- Structural theorists argue that it
over-emphasizes how much society
has changed
- Ignores social causes of c+d e.g. faulty socialisation, anomie,
strain, marginalization, alienation, deprivation etc which are
top-down and propel people into crime
- Ignores that the law is dictated by the ruling class and
fails to recognize that private crime prevention strategies
can only be afforded by the m/c and r/c
- Too much like labelling theoru
- Giddens (1999)
- We are only in a high stage of modernity
- Isn't post-modernism a meta-narrative itself?
- Isn't post-modernism a meta-narrative itself?
- We are only in a high stage of modernity
- Structural theorists argue that it
over-emphasizes how much society
has changed
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