CRIM 3658 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Genetically Modified Food, Risk Society, Risk Compensation
Document Summary
Crime and criminal justice in the risk society. Industrial society risk society (perception of risk) Took form of natural disasters (god, demon, mother nature, diseases) 2. industerial: unintended latent side effects of industrialization (could be tamed through risk compensation and insurance calculation) this phase originated through decision making of organization and political organizations to distribute wealth and shortage. Industrial progress have lead to things where we do not think of risks (beck) Risk society was the most dramatic shift, to prevent bad things from occurring. Science and technology involved a new risk. Science and technology lead to social progress and today may lead to massive destruction of all life. It is produced by capitalism (science+capitalism: releasing scientific product on the markets) Nuclear weapons, global warming, un-natural risks made by humans. To sum up: risks were perceived as an uncertainty drawn from science and technologies, attributed towards science and capitalism.
