LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Victimless Crime, Actus Reus, Mens Rea
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Laws 1000 lecture (9) regulating behaviour: law, crime and social control. Legal moralism v. freedom & harm principle": r. v. butler (ran a video club, store for selling pornography) & the challenge of. More and more difficult to suggest that there are crimes that do not touch any of us. No, still using it as means of scaring someone into doing something still afraid that you will die the person assumes that the gun is loaded: charge bandit for use of violence. Internalization of group norms: external behavioural controls which provides negative punishments when we break the o rules. The intent of the criminal law: to define those acts which may be deemed to be threats to the established order of things, and to apprehend and punish those who knowingly engage in those acts. Deterrence deter the rest of society & deter that particular individual from committing the crime again. Denunciation certain types of behaviour are simply wrong.
