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I wanted to mark the sentences I didn't understand, but I came to this conclusion that I don't understand even a single sentence of this very passage. Would you help please?
The narrative of law and order is located fundamentally at the level of individual guilt and responsibility. (what is the meaning of narrative of law and order. What is the meaning of at the level of individual guilt and responsibility)Criminal acts are seen as individual issues of personal responsibility and culpability, to which the state responds by way of policing, prosecution, adjudication and punishment. This is but one level at which crime and criminal justice can be analyzed. The problem is that so often analysis ends there, at the level of individual action, characterized in terms of responsibility, guilt, evil. In few other areas of social life does individualism have this hold? To take but one instance, it would be absurd to restrict analysis of obesity, to individual greed. It should similarly be widely seen as absurd to restrict analysis of criminal justice issues to the culpability of individuals.
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The writer uses "narrative" to mean the way law and order is talked and written about. This is a sort of annoying pseudo-jargon that we are going to have to get used to because it's here to stay. The writer uses "at the level of" because that is what he is used to seeing there, but he would have to think a minute if you asked him exactly what it meant.
- The writer uses "narrative" to mean the way law and order is talked and written about.
- This is a sort of annoying pseudo-jargon that we are going to have to get used to because it's here to stay.
- The writer uses "at the level of" because that is what he is used to seeing there, but he would have to think a minute if you asked him exactly what it meant.
- A less over-educated person would have put "in terms of".
- I don't see how to reword all that.
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The writer uses "narrative" to mean the way law and order is talked and written about. This is a sort of annoying pseudo-jargon that we are going to have to get used to because it's here to stay. The writer uses "at the level of" because that is what he is used to seeing there, but he would have to think a minute if you asked him exactly what it meant. A less over-educated person would have pu
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