CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Social Evolution, Parental Leave

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
• Professor: Nicolas Carrier

Document Summary

Crime will be what offends the collective consciousness, normal to have crime in society because there is behaviour deemed offensive. Crime in itself has no ontology, always in relation to the state of collective consciousness. Punishment will never be limited to produce deterrence, will always have a moral/expressive component. Functionality of crime ! function of boundary maintenance. Adaptive function ! crime pushes society to evolve, new forms of behaviour will force society to reconfigure their belief. Mechanic and organic solidarity ! form of coercion, primitive and civilized societies and traditional and modern. Solidarity is produced through mechanisms of integration. (socialization) Mechanical simple groups, not a lot of diversity, complexity. Quantitative law of variation quantity/severity of punishment will decrease with greater complexity. Qualitative law of variation (organic incarceration) with increase tolerance for diversity there is less focus on making people suffer, and more balancing of making the currency of freedom. Anomie used to develop theories of crime absence of norms.