CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Reality Principle, Juvenile Delinquency, Jeremy Bentham
6 Jul 2014
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Justice: criminal justice, civil justice, regulatory justice, restorative justice, social justice. Official functions of criminal law: social control, discouraging revenge, expressing public opinion/morality, deterring criminal behaviour. Pain of punishment > pleasure of crime. Types of law: civil/tort law, administrative law (regulatory, criminal law (indictable, summary conviction, duel procedure) Approaches to crime statistics: prima facie, constructionist-institutionalist, structural, integrationist. (number of crimes recorded by police in a given year / estimated population for the year) x 100,000 = crude crime rate. William gordon west s study of serious thieves : few special skills, little income from theft, subscription to moral code, avoidance of violence. Must protect rights of individuals vs corrupt and arbitrary governments and laws. Equality entered the law, justice to be blind. Deterring criminals who rationally used hedonistic calculus. Originated in late 1800s with the italian school of criminal anthropology. Aimed to transform criminology into a penal science.
