CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Precedent, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, The Burning Times

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1301
• Professor: Carolyn Gordon

Document Summary

*if we cannot explain it, it creates an uneasy atmosphere: maintain status quo. Challenge authorities = charged with heresy: divert attention. Biblical law: penance through physical pain. Nothing was sacred about the physical body. The concern was only based around a person"s soul and to redeem it: restore order of the world. Maintain balance (cosmic consequences if there is no balance: eliminate evil spirits through death. Specific: individual (cage and water dunking: affirmation. Authority of the church: social control. Modern day witch hunts: a witch hunt occurs anytime a group of people persecute another group unfairly usually blame that group for larger issues in society. An intense feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten social order. This happens when society throws arms up at certain groups acting certain ways. *these moral panics change over time: opium, marijuana, homosexuality, abortion, etc: manual entrepreneur: individuals who orchestrate the panic.