LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Addiction, A Reminder, Bryan Stevenson
8 Dec 2015
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Confinement, that massive phenomenon, the signs of which are found all across eighteenth-century europe, is a police matter. Police, in the precise sense that the classical epoch gave to it that is, the totality of measures which make work possible and necessary for all those who could not live without it . Charter right and freedom: everyone has the right not to be subjected to any cruel and unusual treatment or punishment. Definition: [social control in relation to law] refers to methods used by members of a society to maintain order and to promote predictability of behaviors: in a society, we like predictable behavior. Definition: laws enacted by legislators and modified by the court decisions, define criminal behaviors and specify the sanction imposed for violations (p. 139) Stats: in 2000 1/10 living in canada had a criminal records (17 percent of men and 4 percent of women)
