SOC323H5 Lecture : Lecture #4
Document Summary
Tuesday recap: what is moral regulation . , ex of governance , 4 tests , lord devlin vs. john stewart mill . , governing the self. Today: governing the body: vagrancy laws, prostitution, birth-control ( 2nd article on test) Producing space: we tend to think of space as an empty geographical area, can be a space of encounter and politics (the other, can be a space of liberal mobility (where the self must be shielded) Right-based arguments: articulating claims from a rights position- freedom of speech, rights to the city, hitchen"s article: right to sit on a milk crate vs. right to a sidewalk. Legal liberalism: associated with the warren court in us, earl warren-chief justice-1953-1969, law as a tool for obtaining fairness and equality- brown vs. board of education (1954) Violence: 2. social degradation, a report by the canadian centre for justice statistics: 1991-1995, 63 prostitutes were murdered in canada, represents 5 % of the women killed in that period.
