CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Criminal Negligence, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Actus Reus
14 Jun 2016
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The formation of the idea of criminal justice. Hostile ideology: punishment will match the crime, it will be an infliction of pain. We are doing justice by infliction of pain. It promotes hostility towards people regarded as criminals. Norms of behaviours attached to norms of sanctions: the criminal is the enemy of society and he or she deserves to suffer. When our values are threatened, we react by inflicting pain. Infliction of pain as recipe for justice. From the perspective of law, crime is always a threat to the core values of a nation. 12th century: conflict between parties also concerned the ruler, and ultimetly a tort against an individual is an attack on the sovereign and it troubles the dominion. Peace money fines against the subjects for breaking the law and threatening the sovereign. The sovereign will think of itself as the most important entity being victimized, it is the same way today that we see society being victimized.
