LY100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Legal Positivism, Doxa, Psychopathy
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Petter and hutchison introduce the idea of democratic theory as a way of justifying the exercise of government power. We"ve looked at several different disciplinary approaches to the study of law in this course by reading academic articles. You will be expected to understand and recognize what articles came from what discipline/disciplines. Let"s try and classify them. (silbey and ewick: social legal theory, janet mosure shrinking of private places, criminal sexual psychopath, skater article. How would we classify report of the trc : law and society, law and politics. First day of class, most people identified with a positivist view of law. Normal" behaviour during a rape; moran talked about normal vs. abnormal lack of capacity. Law and history: key texts, wounded womanhood and dead men; creating of the criminal sexual psychopath; Law and sociology: multiple approaches, key texts, the common place of law; discipline and punish; criminal sexual psychopath;
