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CJUS test 3 Questions and answers, VERIFIED. what is critical theory - -An umbrella term for theories that examines society and literature that comes from social sciences and humanities what do critical theories reject - -crime-fighting policy what is shared assumption - -source of crime stems from unequal class, race, ethics, and general relations what is modernity - -thought of philosophy developed during the enlightenment of the 18th and 19th centuries - reminds us of positivist according to moderniy, crime can be "____ and _____ through ____" - -discovered and solved through the scientific method what is the double edged sword in modernity - -it could relieve human pain but also contribute to enormous human suffering waht is postmodernity - -its between modern and post-modern, a change occurred that started including more revenant indicators of time what is post modernity based on - -Based on three key language propositions: the centrality of language, partial knowledge and provisional truth, deconstruction difference, and possibility what is arbitrary linguistic construction - -truth is not absolute and scientific inquiry fails to fully reveal the truth how is modern different from postmodern - -modernism attempts to fix or change individuals while ignoring the larger picture of society as a whole postmodernists argue that the approach should be relevant to the current era what are grand narratives - -over generalizations stories of reality that people live by what does the end of the grand narratives say - -crimes are linguistic constructions that are made by official institutions it syas laws are structures of domination that have led to repression rather than liberty what did critical observers argue - -Critical observers argued that the state law and order efforts at correcting individual behavior were directed at those least able to resist that official language of the state what is the state attempting to solve with critical observers - -The state is attempting to solve the very problems they generate. -Labeling what did stuart henry and dragon milovanic say - -turth is unknown