CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sexual Assault, Legal Formalism, Paternalism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
• Professor: Nicolas Carrier

Document Summary

Normative or factual answer: crime as evil its self, crime as deviance, crime is laws product, what is treated as a crime factually in society. What exists in crime in terms of facts: a normative answer would be what should be considered a crime. Crime as wring in itself: malum in se ve. Crime as a form of deviance: the two norms of the norm , if were adopting a normative stance were adopting the angle bracket angle of the norm we are saying that anal intercourse is fucking abnormal. It is about the essence of things. Prescribes the existence, a mode of being, that everything should be the same way. Talking about a violation in nature. (when your mobilizing a normative mode of position you can maintain this norm against the facts). The norm prescribes an existence: average- you are providing a factual answer to what is a crie you are taking into consideration what actually happens in life.