CRJU110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Actus Reus, Misdemeanor, Mens Rea
13 Jan 2017
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Social control: social control: to ensure conforming behavior, two levels of social control: Informal social control: unofficial, non-organizational, often face-to-face avenues to ensure conforming behavior (or social control) Making fun of something that someone is wearing, parent taking a screaming kid out of the room, etc. Formal social control: official, often organization, avenues to ensure conforming behavior (or social control) Examples: prison term, expulsion from school, demotion or fired from employment: three mechanisms of social control, norms, sanctions, laws. Mechanisms of social control: norms: expectations of conduct in a given situation. Norms guide our behavior in everyday situations: sanctions: reactions or responses to behavior/actions, two types, negative sanctions: reactions that punish for non-conforming behavior. Official or un-official: positive sanctions: reactions that reward for conforming behavior. Criminal laws to protect us from violations of criminal statutes and rules. Civil laws to protect us from non-criminal personal and property violations. Basic definitions of law, types of law, and crime.
