CJS 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: High Standard Manufacturing Company, Social Order, Victim Support
24 Dec 2020
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Thinking about criminal justice: models for a critical understanding of the process. Social order is generally maintained through culture and power. Culturally allocated roles, identities, motivations, expectations, norms socialisation. Power provides enforcement mechanisms positive and negative sanctions. Emergence of formal system of social control (criminal justice) Shift from rural, local and religious societies to urban, industrialised secular societies: initial role of christianity or the church, growth of the state, emergence of specialists. Some moral values are no longer subject to legal (or formal) social control. Distinction between law and social norms: crimes may not necessarily violate both, behaviour more likely guided by cultural practices and norms, legal systems developed out of norms, more and folk laws. Types of rules that guide behaviour & interactions. Norm - a formal or informal rule held by a group that guides behaviour. Law a system of rules with sanctions attach for noncompliance, does not necessarily have to be written.
