CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: White-Collar Crime, Morality, Paternalism

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

Document Summary

Normative or factual: crime as wrong in itself. Malum in se: murder, rape (evil in itself) Evil in itself as opposed to evil as it is prohibited. Some offences will always be crime even if they are not criminalized. Other offences are only crimes because they are criminalized. Evil of rape is shaped my political context vs. rape is evil itself (feminism) Natural crimes : how can we give criminology a stable object, one that does not evolve and change in crime. Criminology is the study as in what is described a crime, what activity goes against human nature. It is always possible to find bhvr that offend natural inclinations now considered as crimes. Lying goes against honesty and loyalty but is not a crime. How can we justify that a science of crime should not be studying crimes that don"t fit in this category if natural crime (drugs, anal intercourse)