CRI370H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Legal Fiction, Job Production, Harm Reduction
20 Jun 2020
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Industrial schools, eugenics, work children program, residential schools, sterilization, correctional programs. Law sets up state in role of parent: uses best interest of child to paint itself a benefloent, emacipates, since 1994, un recommend to more than 140 states that physical punishment be prohibited by law. Legal fiction, law tells us physical punishment of kids is not violence: narratives, cannot replace one law with another to fix a problem created by the law, use of force justified in certain situations. If administrated by parent: child between 2 and 12. If child capable of learning from it: doesn"t involve use of objects, blows. Law sets standard for behavior in society law codifies values of a nation. Law serves as deterrent to rights violations: corrective force over children meets standard of our nation, don"t nessaircly think of canada like that, why not harm reduction, why do we keep doing things that add more harm.
