CRIM 3658 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Risk Society, Zombie, Risk Compensation
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Crim 3658 - lecture 02 - crime and criminal justice in the risk society. Lecture overview: risk society (beck): argument and limitations, risk and risk management (ericson) Industrial society risk society (i. e. perception of risk ) Western societies have undergone a transaction to industrial risk. Industrial progress have lead to things where we do not think of risks (beck) Science and technology involved in new risk and hazards on risks and uncertainty unheard of. Science and technology lead to social progress and today may lead to massive destruction of all life to fix it, would be likely to move forward. It is produced by capitalism science and capitalism (releasing scientific product on markets) Nuclear weapons, global warming, un-natural risks human made, etc. In sum; risks were perceived as an uncertainty drawn from science and technologies, attributed towards science and capitalism: risk society (beck) Perceptions of risk depend on society"s phase of modernization: Thus, it is worldwide and not specific (uncertainties)
