SOCL 3371 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Due Process, Excessive Bail Clause

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We define the acts that constitute as a crime: deviance: an act that violates a norm, crime: an act that violates a law (legal norm) Crime varies across societies: an act viewed as criminal in one society may not be viewed as criminal in another society. Crimes varies over time (within a society) Natural law (pg9) belief that law is grounded on a higher set of moral principle that is mutual among all societies: laws of nature natural. People who followed this believed that all man and woman made law must subscribe to the natural laws: we cannot write laws that are against the natural laws, laws of god divine. All men endowed with god given rights. Procedural criminal law: 4th, 6th and 8th and 14th amendment. 5th no person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury.

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