SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Indictable Offence, Summary Offence, Malum Prohibitum
20 Feb 2016
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Lecture #1 (thursday sept. 10th: reviewed course outline. See midterm/essay/exam dates on courselink: lecture on crime & deviance. The type of crime (consensus/conflict/social deviations/social diversions) is determined by how harmful it is. The harmfulness of the crime reflects in the severity of the social response. The more harmful/responded to a crime is, the more agreement there is on the norm/a sentence. Predatory crimes mala in se (bad in itself) Everyone in a society agrees that it is a crime deserving of a certain severity of punishment. Based around morality mala prohibita (wrong by prohibition) Different people see the crime as more/less severe, no consensus on a punishment. Cultural- different cultures define crime differently (ex: nudity laws in europe v. s here, drinking is still illegal in saudi arabia v. s here) Historical- laws change over time (ex: cocaine used to be in coca cola, illegal now)
