CRIM 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Critical Criminology, Postmodernity, Critical Legal Studies
31 Jan 2016
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Crim 2650 february 4 th - postmodern criminology: towards uncertainty. Criminological discontent: new metaphors for understanding violence in. Postmodern perspective has not impacted criminology much so far. However, it has relevance for criminology, especially critical criminology: critical criminology is characterized by an argument that it"s impossible to separate values and research, and by a need to advance a progressive agenda in favour of the dis-privileged. It is contradictory to try to find a coherent definition of postmodernism as it is characterized by a loose collection of themes and tendencies, or as changing and politically volatile. It is also commonly used to refer to different things. In this paper, the focus is with interpretations of contemporary society and social theories inspired by french writers (baudrillard, lyotard, but also. Derrida, deleuze, foucault, barthes, lacan, bataille, kristeva, and others) attempt to find common themes relevant to criminology in works.
