ANTHRO 169 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cesare Beccaria, Due Process
3 May 2019
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Crime that happen in a car: stand your ground within one"s property. Castle : this refers to our home, which means we can defend ourselves against deadly forces of necessary. safety. In ca : a person can defend themselves in any given situation; may for the sake of. It is controversial because it generates biases in the jurisdiction of race (brantingham, lecture 3). Bias when the person making the killing is black, thus it not unequally applied on different races. The american legal system has been built on the notion of the classical school of thought. This notion asserts that crime has a supernatural origin. People during this period perceived crime very differently from the way it is perceived now. The pre-enlightenment crime was considered to be enacted by demon possession or witchcraft, the divine nature of society. Proof systems : two eye witness or one eye witness + confession, or confession + circumstantial evidence.
