CRIM 300W Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Statistical Significance, Victims Family, Criminal Type
19 Nov 2016
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Crime was handled informally within the family. Crime was attributed to the influence of the devil/dark forces. Social and intellectual reforms in western europe. Crim300 chapter 1: introductory overview of theory. Presented social order maintenance for feudal lords, whose solutions were : trial by battle, trial by ordeal. Both approaches were rooted in spiritual notion of divine intervention. Accused subjected to some test determining guilt/innocence. Eg. repeatedly dunked in water while bound by rope. God protects falsely accused during trial by ordeal. Sacrifice of freedom in exchange for gov"t protection. Victim (or one of victim"s family) would fight offender (or one from offender"s family) Crime no longer believed to be a function of religion/superstition. Neoclassicism: deterrence, free will, dimensions of punishment. Crime seen as result of free will. Principles of classical school revised by legal reformers. Eg. cjs attempting to achieve deterrence as primary objective. Value of criminal rewards vs. likelihood of getting caught.
