SY242 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ethnomethodology, Symbolic Interactionism
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Legal laws can be indeterminate according to benjamin gregg. Standing, standards of review and demands of procedural due process are often open to judicial manipulation (gregg, 2007). People use common sense and membership categorization in order to determine whether a crime has been committed or not, hence the indefinite knowledge of crime, for example a car pulls up to a woman smoking a cigarette. A man jumps out, grabs her and pushes her into the car while throwing the cigarette out. One interpretation could be that it was a daughter and her father disciplining her for smoking. But it could also have been an abduction. (lesson 5: lena jayyusi studied rationality and morality and discusses the concept of insanity , which denies rationality and therefore responsibility (lesson 5) Battered wife defence , illustrates provocation and how it is a factor when judging crime. In 1990 a woman was acquitted of killing her abusive husband (lesson 5)
