ADJUS-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Change, Technological Change, Influence Of Mass Media
23 Jun 2020
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They exclude harmful behaviours that aren"t punishable or forbidden by law. They include some behaviours that cause no public harm. They don"t take account of variations across time and place. Legal definitions: crimes are acts or omissions that render the person liable to punishment. Focuses more narrowly on street crimes rather than white collar and corporate crimes. Regards a much broader range of behaviours as criminal conduct. Regards violations of human rights as crimes. Problems with harm-based and human rights definitions. Conceptions of human rights vary across time and place. Doesn"t help us to understand the criminalisation process. Less agreement on relative crimes (ie. , changing perceptions) Changing perceptions of relative crimes lead to changes over time as to what behaviours are criminalised: A worker has his leg caught in an unguarded piece of machinery because the employer knowingly failed to provide safety measures. As a result the worker loses his leg:
