SOSC 1375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Legal Week, Moral Panic, Psychopathy

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1375
• Professor: Annie Bunting

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If looking at change of attitude newspaper is a good approach to see the change in the time. In this course we should just think about change over time in law: this whole course is a sample of different law approaches, sally falk moore study. There are some approaches of sentencing in first nations that may or may not drive within our justice system. Customary law refers to the body of rules practices and customs that have been traditionally recognised by the aboriginal community as being binding upon them. Has been increasingly recognized in sentencing as a tool in peace building and restoring harmony and good order to aboriginal communities in canada customary aboriginal law has a constitutional foundation and for this reason has increasing influence. Each aboriginal community would have their own ideas of customary laws. When people talk about customary laws there"s aboriginal customary law and international customary law, we mostly focus on aboriginal law.