LSJ 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Order, Informal Social Control, Procedural Justice
5 Apr 2016
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Why: creation of social order/compliance, peaceful resolution of disputes, facilitate orderly social change, to preserve important values of society. Law"s stated purposes/intended consequences are sometimes achieved, sometimes not. Social order: too much social order can suppress innovation and creativity. Too oppressive: can lead to unjust systems, too much centralized power. Informal social control: created by us, we don"t have clear procedures if someone breaks the rules. But we still enforce these subconsciously known rules: reactions to violations: All these are forms of procedures to punish people for violating informal social. Non-instrumental reasons: morality, might hurt others. Instrumental reasons: emphasis on deterrence, specific vs. general deterrence. If you get caught doing x and go to jail for y months. You will be less likely to commit it again when you get out. See what happens to others who get punished. Learn by other"s mistakes: scared for the consequences for yourself. Also scared of the label that would be put on you.
