SOCI 377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lawas, Birching, Jeremy Bentham
17 Sep 2015
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Whereas the demonic approach stipulates that there are external supernatural forces that. Classical deviation stipulates that people are rational deciders and make a choice to deviate because of. Judges had total authority to make decisions about punishments, and they were able to make laws on a case by case bases. The laws were somewhat vague, and nobody had a full understanding of what the laws were and what the consequences of breaking that law were the enlightenment emphasized, reason analysis and. Five elements: people are hedonistic people will always seek to maximize pleasures and minimize pains. E. g. it"s easier to steal something that work for the money to buy it. We give up some our hedonistic tendencies to have social order for the greater good. Otherwise there would be chaos and we do so to live in a civil society: punishment is justified but also necessary to counterbalance the pleasures of crime.
