HIST 3850 Lecture 21: March 10 Tutorial
10 Mar 2017
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On lecture: societal changes influence the construction of murder. Having control over race, class, and gender in order to gain this control over society: the constitution and the charter of rights and freedoms are the law of the land. Does this weaken or strengthen the hegemonic influence to the law: control of the law. Control aspect in institutionalization only people inside of prison know what it is like. Abolitionists were framing their argument based on this: explain how the law is constructed in the first place, what the change is, and then the historical impact of that change, coffin"s case. Issues of class: the victims were upper class, and coffin was not. Keeping quebec as a tourist attraction, so they must make a quick conviction: lucas and turpin"s cases. America and canada have different views on the death penalty, yet the two last victims of the death penalty interest both the canadian and american systems.
