Daily, weekly, seasonal and yearly cycles are such iterations. Given the same set of kids in the same conditions each cycle would produce slightly new behaviors in class, in play, in crime or in family life would be expected. Given the same set of doctors in the same conditions, each new cycle would produce different rates of crime. Given the same set of corporations with the same labor costs, the same tax table, the same level of demand, the same level of competition, crime rates would vary if even one key variable made a small change. A postmodern criminology is as much concerned with preventing crime as with charting and theorizing about it.
Postmodern criminology looks for changing correlations rather than high correlations.
Postmodern criminology looks for ways to keep a society with enough order to serve the human need for dependable scheduling of social interaction while maintaining enough disorder to permit change, flexibility, adaptation and creativity. Postmodern crime policy is not oriented so much to control, pain and punishment as to careful, light and strategic adjustments of key variables which affect the kind and number of attractors. In a word, postmodern criminology is more oriented to social justice than to criminal justice.