LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Control, Mens Rea, Indictable Offence
5 Apr 2016
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Law is one form of social control: there are many more, using penalty and reward, normalization and regulation. Deinition: refers to methods used by members of a society to maintain order and to promote predictability of behaviors. Informal/formal control: informal social control: internalization of group norms i. e. dress code, incest (18yrs old): characteristic of smaller community, face-to-face. No oicial group mechanism, or person in charge: formal social control: external pressures. Securing conformity via reinforcement and punishment in a systematic and visible way (i. e. the. Deinition: laws enacted by legislators and modiied by the court decisions, deine 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) Legalization: the process by which norms move from the social to the legal level its latest stage of formulation being the political.
