CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN THE CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY OF POSTMODERN

The article is based on the study and generalization of world and Russian criminological literature, as well as some statistical data. In the postmodern society in which humanity has lived since the mid-twentieth century, not only social processes and phenomena change significantly, but also knowledge about them. Postmodern criminology proceeds from the fact that “crime” and “criminality” are social constructs constructed by the authorities in the interests, first of all, of the authorities. There are no properties, characteristics or personality traits inherent only to the “criminal personality”. “Criminogenic factors” are also factors that determine other types of deviant behavior. Punishment is ineffective (not effective enough) in counteraction crime. New views of postmodern criminology are presented in the article.