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Crime and Deviance
Postmordernist view
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Sociology
12th Grade
05/23/2009
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Postmordernism
Definition
  •  They believe that they level and type of crime in our postmordern society has shifted because of our changing society 
  •  They don't think that the  social groups  are  noe less important  because of how ppeople are now so individualised
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Foulcault
 Definition
 He suggests that  individualism has led people into thinking  that crime is an individual problem and individual responsibility
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Critisms of Post mordenism
 Definition
  • It it hard to see how this theory could  be  operationalised and tested
  •  This view  rejects the existence of  structures
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