CRIM 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Restorative Justice, Mitigating Factor, Moral Authority
8 Apr 2017
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Focuses on criminogenic assessments and prescriptive treatments. Emotion generated by crime is a key reason why crime is . Victims advised by lawyers to keep emotions in check when testifying. Accused people who are emotional during trial may be seen as manipulative. Security with care chapter 8: psychology of rj the shame of being yourself. Expression of feelings is seen as problematic in court. Christie"s 1977 claim that professionals had stolen conflicts from rightful owners. Cj institutions began to replace churches regarding moral authority. Citizens became less active in their communities: people in conflict left with no way to process own emotions, community members excluded from participating. Practice in which emotion generated by conflicts became the property of the judge and court. Displays of emotion were more evident than today. Best seen as mitigating factor in court. Emotions cannot be legislated in or out of the practice. Private self and public self do not necessarily coincide.
