CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hugo Grotius, Criminal Negligence, Actus Reus
17 Apr 2016
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Sovereign power: a rulers during a specific time that held power to know what is legal and what is not. Criminology week three: thursday 17th: the formation of the idea of criminal justice. Trans-political system of thought: the thought that the criminal justice system as institutions, actors, cops, courts. For them to exist, there needs to be an ideological basement. Hostile ideology the death penalty the little girl and her father in the prairies (people want the death penalty back as a type of punishment) Norms of behavior attached to norms of sanctions we punish to prove the norms. Punishment as duty (we have the duty to punish and create justice in society for the greater good. Therefore when our values are attacked then we as humans are influenced to protect our values and morals. Infliction of pain as recipe for justice punishment represent the justice. Punitive solution (causing pain or using punishment that will be life altering)
