CRJS 1011 Lecture 7: & 8 Social Construction of Deviance and Crime
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Overall, there is great conflict here as the multiple parts of the social world push. Mala in se: crimes that are bad in and of themselves, ex - murder. Mala prohibitum: crimes that violate the prevailing norms, ex. smoking marijuana, prostitution. Prohibit the sale and distribution of selected goods and services (ex. sex, drugs) Legislating morality: social construction, sex and deviance, drugs, alcohol and substance abuse, the social construction of morality, deviance, and crime. Consensus view function of criminal law is to express public morality the lawmakers, creates insiders and outsiders. Conflict view - encoding mores and norms into criminal law provides power for. Some non-criminal behaviour may be very harmful. Some criminal behaviour may be regarded as moral. Some criminal behaviour may not be very harmful. Moral entrepreneurs: undertake (cid:498)moral crusades(cid:499) to have their values incorporated into law, encourage (cid:498)moral panics(cid:499, demonize the offender.