CCJ-2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Statutory Law, Constitutional Law, Mens Rea
13 Nov 2017
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Chapter 4: criminal law: a law is a rule that governs conduct, laws tell us how to conduct ourselves across many different domains, we are expected to know what the law says and follow it. The purpose of laws is to regulate the relationships between people and regulate behavior. Purpose of laws: maintain order, regulate human interactions, enforce moral beliefs, promote social change, address wrongdoings. Sources of laws: case law is law that comes from judicial rulings. That is, when a judge decides a case, the decision the judge makes is now law. (school v. brown: common law is law that is unwritten, but is rather customary. Everyone that lives in a certain area are subject to certain laws and the laws are going to applied equally. There are three broad types of law: criminal law, civil law, administrative law, criminal laws specify which behaviors are not acceptable and specifies punishments for.
