LY200 Lecture 4: Week 4
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Religious crimes predominate in mechanical socieies with high concentrates of poliical power. Human crime predominate in organic socieies with strong democracies o. Example: violaion of an individual and/or their property. The individual is the center of morality. The greater the society"s degree of poliical centralizaion, the more severe the punishment. The variable of poliical centralizaion is separate and disinct from the variable of social development. The more advance a society is, the greater the preponderance of human crimes to religious crimes. The more advanced a society is, the less harshly it will punish human crimes. 4: as society develops, the deprivaion of liberty through incarceraion tends to become the preferred form of punishment. Ritual punishment and moral solidarity are deeply intertwined. The purpose of punishment is to bring people together. When solidarity is threatened by an ofender, we will look for someone to punish to restore that balance.
