CRIM 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fundamental Attribution Error, School Corporal Punishment, Mass Incarceration
24 Jan 2017
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Week 3 lec 3 jan 23 what can we learn from traditional societies. Wab kinew: 8th fire wab kinew 500 years in 2 minutes. A history of the state-based justice system: colonial america (cid:862)police(cid:863) were typically community volunteers. Crime (cid:862)belonged(cid:863) to the victim took initiative in prosecuting offender. Jails used to hold people before they went to trial not as punishment. A form of incapacitation until crime could be resolved. In small communities, everyone was considered valuable couldn"t afford to incarcerate anyone. Resources too scarce to build, maintain, and staff prisons. Justice, crime, peace: (cid:862)peace is not the absence of war but the presence of ______ and the absence of _____(cid:863) . Presence of justice and absence of crime. Presence of truth and absence of crime. Presence of justice and absence of fear. Presence of truth and absence of fear. Punishment: (cid:862)crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment(cid:863)
