SOCL 4471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: List Of Countries By Intentional Homicide Rate
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Some things to keep in mind: government, culture, and law are difficult to separate in the modern world. Culture and law in the past: legal systems are nested within governmental systems, which are political in nature. Examples: us supreme court recent socio/ political issues: the rules of life and the rules of organized states have always been intertwined. Law before law: before formal legal systems, law was complex and completely intertwined with social life. Norms and laws were the same with not separate agents to enforce them. Smaller groups are easier to manage however, losing 100 people in a group of 10000 means a lot more than a large population. Common functions of law were handled by unwritten systems of tradition. Murder rates: louisiana: 10. 3, historical murders. Some basic definitions: statutes: written laws from the legislature. Common law relies less on statutes, but they are present.
