Legal Narratives

The narrative of law and order is located fundamentally at the [blank] of individual guilt and responsibility. Criminal acts are seen as individual issues of personal responsibility and culpability, to [blank] 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, [blank] in terms of responsibility, guilt, evil. In few other areas of social life does individualism have this hold. To take but one [blank] , it would be absurd to restrict the analysis of obesity, to individual greed. It should similarly be widely seen as absurd to restrict analysis of criminal justice issues [blank] the culpability of individuals.