SOC216H5 Lecture 6: Lecture 6
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Do readings and focus on what we did in class. Don t memorize dates, understand what did this research find. One hint: when you read a m/c don t look at the answers write out your own answer. Object of contestation-fights about, we don t always agree. Power of people and how law gets to be where it is. Not every moral entrepreneur is going to be successful. Legislation-people we elect, democratic process of creation of law. Adjudication-result of what judges do, judges settle disputes and apply existing law but when you get to higher courts (supreme court) judges may alter or amend or create new law. Judges of supreme court of canada struck down abortion. Not every law in the books has gone through this process. Examples of laws that have gone through these steps. >crime spiked as a result of crack cocaine, homocides, peaks in 1990, in 1991 over.
