CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Roman Law, Feudalism, Stoning

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1301
• Professor: Christine Gervais

Document Summary

A lot of fear of the unknown, people didn"t have many explanations for that threatened the survival was deviant (cid:523)ex: stealing cows, food (cid:524) things. Church took advantage of the fear to maintain power over people. People were very dependant on each other for survival (ex: exchanges of food). Things: oldest known perspective, deviance = sin, cause = supernatural, religiously based, social order = god/church, no central authority localized justice, subsistence societies (survival) Guilt was very important in the application of punishment. The church played a big role in the application of guilt. )ts goal was to cleanse the person of (cid:498)evil(cid:499). Fatal: guilt public punishments if the person survived. Very physically based with human suffering: church administration, cleansing/purging, lex talionis. Roman empire leading up to the middle ages. It was a very systematic democracy which was not religious, but secular. Things were codified and regulated through the system.