CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Actus Reus, System Analysis, Mens Rea
11 Dec 2017
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Criminology definition: hybrid discipline brings perspectives together to find out how people tick, post-modern (how not why) How individuals are harmed by crime: denaturalization, all aspects of society are social inventions, maintained when useful; changed when not, smart and realistic, how power/knowledge shapes world (gotta know to bring change, applied + academic crim: mutually dependent. Lombroso: uses measurements of physical abnormalities of criminals: criminals must be less evolved, compare physicals of criminals vs other ppl, discredited due to : no research, disproportionate punishment, more torture =/= less crime, poor tech. Specify in advance what punishments are attracted to criminal acts: punishments to achieve better results not harm or vengeance, proportionate to act, ulitarian (for the greater good) Intoxication: mental disorder, mistakes of fact (cid:894)aka i didn"t know, ex. sexual assaults(cid:895, necessity: you had to break to prevent worse, duress: compelled to commit cause something bad will happen to someone, provocation.
