SOC379H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Condom, Protestant Work Ethic, Victimless Crime
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Outline: crime as an object of study, law and morality. Morality offences: survey results, objectivism: revisited, sampson: objectivist sociology as process, constructivism revisited, haggerty on serial killers, media analysis discussion. = what is against the law: seems limiting, hagan. Trudeau 1967: the state has no place in the bedroom of adults, change of homophobia. John stuart mill: hagan begins with mill, utilitarian - greatest benefit for greatest number of people, harm principle. Define crime to prevent harm to others. Immorality: what a reasonable person assumes to be immoral. You should be able to actualize what you want to do as long as you aren"t harming others: you use the law to protect people from harm, cant think of distress caused by action as a harm. Can"t punish people because some object to an act. Becomes what no one objects to then: rationalize law beyond morality. Arguments against - framed as harmful to people living with disability.
