LAWS1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mastercard, Hermeneutics, Exaggeration
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Crime: emerges as a result of interaction between society"s need to understand crime, need to identify speci c events as crime and need to create consequences for these actions. Against criminal law - excludes moral dimension, social context. As a social construction - no objective de nition, instead a cultural negotiation de nition. As violation of human rights - value+context dependent. De ned by religion - religious interpretation varies. Social harm - will then indicate petty events w no victims or direct harm. Criminology: the study of the making of laws, the breaking of laws, and of society"s reaction to the breaking of laws. Over-estimation of the importance of police/courts/prisons in crime prevention. Crime reports often don"t result in arrest, a trial or incarceration. Separating yourself from criminals (ssb) i"m not a criminal . The denial principle - i"m perfect and would never do anything wrong .
