LAWS 2301 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Social Inequality, Dualism, Feminist Legal Theory
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Chapter 2 perspectives on criminal law notes. Introduction: criminal law is a reflection of the views and perspectives of policy-makers on what they want the law to accomplish. 2. 1 traditional legal perspectives: the traditional approach within law is one which takes the law as given and fails to explore the social or political dimensions of the institutions, agents, processes and activities of law. It is an approach that concentrates on the written, formal aspects of law and that assumes that the law is a neutral force to be used and manipulated by the state and the individual, legally constituted agents. 2. 2 law in the social sciences: karl marx, emphasized the role of criminal law in smoothing the transition to capitalism by. A critical approach to the analysis of law and legal reform must be able to appreciate the realities of class relations within modern societies, and to analyze the role of the state in sustaining and reproducing these relations.
