CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: United States Territorial Acquisitions

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1301
• Professor: Christine Gervais

Document Summary

Discovery: 1492 christopher columbus discovered the world, discovery/destrucion of americas, 1492 colonizaion/chrisianizaion. Christopher columbus landed between espanola and haii. Rise of economic poliical power of colonizer. Indigenous considered deviant or marginalized because they weren"t living up to the european culture. Religion: plays into understanding of deviance (quesioning catholic church, dissenters and new churches, luthrem annoying church and monarchy. Airming authority of secular government, god given opportunity for. Monarchs to solidify power: monarchs were considered religious power (divine rights of kings, religious specular authority to create power, protestant ethic. Contrast to catholic teaching (hard work, exemplifying your belief) not just your faith. Birth of secular authority: italy, spain, france. Implicaions for jusice: insituionalize legislaion and court system (kings) Reinforce new secular authority: increase of criminalizaion, diference in concepion of deviance. Religion becomes a way of maintaining power: queen mary changes her religion, several 100 protestants burned because they converted. 1688 1695: 50 capital punishment crimes.