Classical Studies 2301A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Epistates, Iliad, White-Collar Crime
10 Dec 2016
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You can commit a crime without being a criminal (eg. jaywalking) People don"t want to identify themselves as a criminal. What is criminology: the 5 approaches: legal approach: crime is law breaking behaviour. If crime is law breaking behaviour, then what about the people who haven"t been convicted of a crime. This approach is restricted by behaviour of those who have been acquitted. Laws in different times and places are very different: moral approach: owning slaves is immoral even though there isn"t a crime against it. Person might not be acting against their own standards, but against societies standards. Allows us to remove things from the law that aren"t necessarily criminal. Redefined as what is criminal vs. who is criminal: social approach: the work for law is nomos = custom. In archaic greene, laws were usually unwritten and just based on custom.
