CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Liberal Democracy, Super Bowl Xxxviii Halftime-Show Controversy, Consequentialism
6 Apr 2017
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This is not a question that can be answered normatively. We tend to lose focus on other forces of crime when we look at crime only in one objective. (murder, homicide, etc) normative vs. We will see them manifested in 3 ways. Some offenses will always be crime, even if theyre not criminalized, where as other crimes will only be crimes because of their actual criminalization. Example : murder & rape (malum in se) Raffaele garofalo natural crimes, basically looking at all the variations of crime & how we can build a science of crime with criminology that is not dependent of criminal code. Criminology will be the study of what they define as natural crimes, so anything that goes against human nature. He was positive that humans were inclined towards pity, so we are naturally inclined to be loyal, compassionate etc. Natural crimes would be crimes that violate these inclinations.
