Sociology 2260A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Goby, Golden Rule, Homicide
17 Nov 2017
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Precipitation of key events to the presence of enterprising individual or group. Creates new code of right and wrong. Law is a statement that certain behaviours are disreputable. Someone who is engaged in the process of de ning new rules and laws or who advocates stricter enforcement of existing laws . Crusading reformer: assert the existence of a particular condition or state of a airs, de ne this condition as harmful or undesirable, try to arouse support of the public. Legislation is the most obvious legal task of legislative bodies. The deliberate creation of legal precepts by a body of government that gobies articulate expression to such legal precepts in a formalized legal document. Choice is not as formalized as legislation. Judge made law stems from actual controversy, legislation is based on what to do if this happens . Legislators anticipate future problems, have more freedoms from the courts.
