SOSC 2650 Lecture Notes - Insider Trading, Occupy Movement, Broken Windows Theory
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Crime is not always defined on utilitarian grounds: e. g. , victimless, consensual crimes *had difficulty expressing crime; durkheim theory on crime is best useful when applied to explain vice crimes *crime about public morality or victimless crimes* Public punishment *criminal justice will have rituals; all our punishments should be public; they public because they need to preform society about the morality: news media coverage of crime (cf. People do not read crime news stories of their factual content, but for their moral content. Reading crimes news serves as a daily moral workout. We"re all sharing the same news stories; with punishment it is a m ass reaction to deviance. Newsworthy because news informs us about societies moral boundaries but as well as our own. Any moral work should be a work in progress: courtroom trial. During sentencing, judges give formal expression to the feelings of society. *when the judge expresses feelings of society, these feelings are legitimate*
