LS101 Lecture 1: Functions of the law
8 Apr 2016
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Laws are like blueprints, expected to act a certain way, tells you things to do, prohibits you from doing certain things. Laws all about punishment not for compliments, police stop you for speeding not good driving. Our rights and responsibilities are dictated by law, regulate our behaviour. Laws are necessary in a complex society. Laws are instruments of social change, if you want to change laws you can pass laws to prohibit that. When you create laws, you create social change such as tobacco and smoking laws, its prohibited to smoke in front of children, prohibit people from smoking in certain places created a social change made people see smoking differently. Defines your rights and duties, and obligations in societies which are dictated and enforced by laws. Laws are like all norms, essentially reflects on what society considers right or wrong. If something is against the law, government tells the public that this is wrong, and therefore they prohibit it.
