PSYC 164 Study Guide - Final Guide: Modern History, Positive Criminology, Late Modernity
Document Summary
Cultural criminology: crime and control in the context of culture. Viewing both crime and agencies of control as cultural products. Read in terms of the meanings they carry. Interaction between relationship and interaction between constructions upwards and downwards. Make sense of a world with scripts. Cultural nature of crime and control mediation through fact and fiction. Emphasis on creativity, individualism, and generation of lifestyle in the present period coupled with a mass media. Shared understanding that the beginning of late modern period cultural criminology emerged. Reduction of human action to reflex on the material situation. Positive enactment of pre-given culture are ruled out of court. Culture was not to bestyles were something to be evolved learnt and enacted life. Youth culture hive of creativity arena of magical solutions where symbols are included into everyday life. Relocating transgression as a source of meaning and leisure. Cultural criminology seeks to retrace roots and move to 21st century.
