PHILOS 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Preliminary Hearing, Crown Attorney, Arraignment
8 Apr 2015
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The second half of last class was a sprint. Conversation began with general idea of punishment . Law claims to be the highest authority in the land (it claims to be capable of determining how all other institutions and agencies are allowed to behave) We then turned to look at how all of this leads to the practice of state punishment. The law is able to take control to take control of every aspect of a person"s life, a state can punish you for almost anything. Having an official body of law creators and enforcers, means that people dealing with law and offences are highly unlikely to have any personal involvement in the case. In summary: massive in scope, impersonally executed by a class of legal officials, and they claim and exercise the right to regulate all other forms of punishment that occur within their jurisdiction.
