SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Aggressive Panhandling, Actus Reus, Homicide
14 Apr 2017
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Objectivist-legal: criminologists should focus on rule breakers : core question: what are causes of criminal behaviour, canadian criminal law is focused on this, has informed several prominent criminological theories, administrative law: Governs relationship between individuals and the state. I. e. labour laws, environmental laws, licenses (liquor, drivers,etc. : civil law: Resolved by lawsuits, private settlements, or civil courts. Ie. crimes against the person (homicide, assault) Offences that are wrong with no obvious victim (illegal drug use) Criminal court = without a reasonable doubt. Canadian criminal law: informed by objectivist-legalist perspective. Mens rea (guilty mind/intent: under 12 cannot be convicted because cannot possess mens rea or have mental disability. Labelling theorists argued that deviance is constructed: the deviant is one to whom that label has successfully been applied; deviant behaviour is behaviours that people so label (becker 1963: 9) Grounded in social constructionism: deals with who benefits and who is harmed: panhandling (begging for money) illegal in toronto.
