CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Malice Aforethought, New Economy, Industrial Revolution

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

Document Summary

Torturous punishments against william wallace= public spectacles of king"s power and message to spectators. Option of mercy declined: does not pledge allegiance to king. Punishments: pillory and stocks, hung and stretched, mutilation, imprisonment, rack, execution. Parts of body were scattered around england: send message to others o. Academe: in education secularism is emerging, church censorship. Printing press: learning more than just in their communities. People are becoming more literate with emergence of school and printing press. Science: competition between religious knowledge vs. scientific discoveries, considered as deviants according to church, monarch support science to power. Discovery: christopher columbus arrived in the americas. Religion: religious traditions breaking off from the church, alliance/collaboration between church and state. If you work hard enough on earth aligned with protestant religion, is way to salvation. Implications for justice: more institutionalised justice, direct control of king, start of court systems. Role of laws: monarch played a role, capitalism. Greater attention paid to frauds, theft etc.