SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Determinant, Moral Treatment, Biostatistics

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Mavis Morton

Document Summary

For thousands of years prior to the mid 1600"s behaviour that is now classiied as criminal" were understood to be caused by demons, evil spirits, or by an indeterminate force of evil". Religion was used to account for the prevalence of crime. Spirit possessions were seen to be the main cause of ani-social behaviour. These early socieies believed that radical methods such as cranial surgery would cure. The understanding of the deiniions of crime today began with understanding the deiniions of crime in the past. Magna carta is an important historical document because it is the foundaions for modern laws and procedures in english law. It became the foundaion of civil liberies in many countries around the world. Was a powerful intellectual movement that took place in western europe in the late 1600"s early 1700"s. It marked a signiicant intellectual shit on how crime came to be understood in society. The noion of independent rights was not common to everyone.