CRI385H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Blackletter
12 Jan 2017
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Jan 05 2017 (l01 readings) introduction chapter 1. Academics generally believe social solutions to criminal justice issues rather than harsh punishments. Tough on crime conservative approach not popular among academics. This argument is generally taught to students as facts and statistics vs. mere opinion or prejudice; a simple minded argument. Academics turn political or ethical debates about what to do with evildoers and community safety into an argument about who has the facts. Towards end of the eighteenth century, scholars around the world formed common ground to denounce superstition, common sense and traditional views, and prejudice. Although some influential thinkers tried to combine rationality and reason with sensation and emotion, rationality was typically regarded as the superior choice of reason as opposed to emotion or sentiment. Denouncing journalistic and sensationalistic approaches as merely anecdotal produces a whole theory of what counts as a legitimate format. By late nineteenth century fiction" writers became a distinct way of writing.
