Constitutive Criminology
Constitutive criminology was put together by Henry and Milovanovic and aims to study newsmaking and criminology. This theory is interested in "identifying the ways in which the interrelationships between human agents and their social wold constitute crime, victims, and control as realities. It is oriented to how we ma deconstruct these realities, and how we may reconstruct less harmful alternatives. Simultaneously, it is concerned with how emergent socially constructed realities themselves constitute human agents with the implication that, if crime is to be replaced, this necessarily must involve a deconstruction and reconstruction of the human subject" (p. 19). It strives to look at both discourse and practice. This helps identify the fluidity of processes and ways in which rules are enforced (p. 20).
References:
Barak, G. (1994). “Media, society, and criminology.” In G. Barak (Ed.), Media, process, and the social construction of crime: Studies in newsmaking criminology. 3-45. Garland Publishing: New York.