CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Totalitarianism, Authoritarianism, Ecocide
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The state is an institution that claims that exclusive right to exercise force in a given territory through the use of the police and armed forces/ Monarchy: transfers power from generation to generation within a single family. Democracy: generally, is representative rather than fully participatory. Authoritarianism: is a political system that denies popular participation in government. Totalitarianism: is a political system that extensively regulates people"s lives. The vagrancy laws constituted an abundance of cheap labor to england"s ruling elite, during a period when serfdom was breaking down and the pool of labor was depleting. The law would serve to socially construct a criminal pathology. The greater severity of punishment naturally led to increased business risks, risks that were passed on to the consumer in the form of high prices. The addict became quite literally an individual who had to steal to support a craving. The legal creation of false scarcity was socially responsible for the self-fulfilling assertion the