CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mens Rea, Extenuating Circumstances, Jeremy Bentham

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

Document Summary

Roman empire is not part of middle ages. It is before***: summary, 1000 bc-500 ad, period with organized beurocracy and secular power, roman law- 12 tables. Roman catholic church wanted power which was threat to secular power which was deviance: christianity was deviant and could result in prosecution or punishment, types punishments and confessions. *all punishment was usually slow, painful, humiliating, entertaining and caused physical and psychological suffering: burning, cooking, boiling, lime pit. Oil, coals, water: drowning, flogging/whipping, crucifixion, slavery. Higher enslavement was higher economy: entertainment- stoning, lions den f) Lex talionis: context of changes from one age to another. Church=real power (try to control everything/everyone: explanation of deviance/crime, threat to christianity was considered deviant, deviance= temptation/sin (stage 1, deviance= possession (evil) (stage 2) d, types punishments and confessions, punishment=penance (cleansing) b, guilt is determined by: Justice needs to establish guilt: ordeals- fire, water, combat.