SOC307H5 Lecture Notes - Bad Life, Miscarriage, Summary Offence
Document Summary
Rules (in general) regulate behaviour sets limits to what can and cannot be done control all aspects of life backed by sanctions social control prevent chaos. Main forms of rules: custom law recurrent practises over time solidify as tradition human origin forgotten viewed as to have always existed traced to mythical origins, divinities, ancestors inviolable, scared strictly followed, positive law. Modern criminal code intentionally created to deal with exigencies of life not treated as sacred someone sat down and made them easier to change than custom. Code of hammurabi (babylonian king) 1800 b. c. not governmental king"s rule as kings changed, so did the rules. International codes some laws have a greater scope some laws are international everyone al over the world must follow. B criminal (penal) law regulates the state and individual relation individuals: citizens, companies: public law o o o, regulates crime and punishment (defines, prescribes) o o o o. Constitution act (1867) used to be bna act.
