CRCJ 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Social Inequality
13 Sep 2018
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Criminology chapter two: a social context of dispute settlement and the rise of. Law: crime does not exist in all societies. Crime is a violation of law, and not all societies have formulated laws: criminal law comes into existence at the point where the state declares itself to be the injured party for certain types of infractions. Small-scale society and the origin of law: for most of human existence, we lived in small hunting and gathering communities. Within these communities, cooperation, mutual aid, and kinship were the essential means of preserving harmony and restoring order: general goal of dispute settlement process is to restore order. Ideal type: a theoretical contrast abstracted from experience that brings together observed characteristics of real social relationships. In simple societies, there was often little if any surplus since the production from hunting and gathering was entirely used up in subsistence.
