CRJU301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Critical Legal Studies, Social Inequality, Jargon
22 Dec 2016
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Emerged in elite law schools in the 1970s. To the benefit of repeat players to create a lot of different rules, to pick and choose which ones apply. Address to prisoners in the cook county jail. There is no such thing as a crime, as the word is generally understood: it is deviance from social norm. No distinction between the real moral condition of the people in and out of jail. Criminals people of all kinds, all of you doing the best you can, evidently not very well; people of all kinds and conditions under all circumstances. No constitutional rights to healthcare, food, etc. No constitutional rights to life in the u. s. No constitutional right to electricity/gas however the legislature can pass a law to prevent the cutting of services due to unpaid bills during extreme weather conditions. Citizens are forced to pay the high cost of energy or face death from extreme weather.
