CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: White-Collar Crime, Moral Authority, Verstehen
16 Apr 2016
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Crime and the collecive consciousness" (that in which shocks the collecive consciousness) Nothing in itself is criminal depends on social context. What shocks the collecive consciousness is not necessarily what is harmful (harm is not a good criteria to deine what is crime) Normality of crime normal that a society has crime if we were a society of saints with no paricular inclinaions to do nasty stuf, than the smallest thing will ofend the collecive consciousness (ex: picking your nose) Crime and punishment is a way in which the community health is sustained, allows for communicaing morally establish boundaries / boundary maintenance allows solidarity. Adapive funcion of a crime: some behaviours that shock a collecive conscious force a society to evolve ex: homosexuality forced society to evolve. Punishment is seen as a branch of morality. Models of law tend to be non-secular organic: no longer founded on god, complex what is regulated is how the individual relates to others.
