ADJUS-121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dan Kahan, Industrial Revolution, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity
26 Aug 2020
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Lived around same time, where they witnessed the industrial revolution. Society can only function is there first existing a shared framework of meanings and moralities. What causes a crime to be punished (rather than dealt with in other ways) Some crimes violate sacred values which leads to outrage. Our commitment to these values has the character of religious attachment. According to durkheim punishment is not a calculated instrument for rational control of society it"s emotional. Punishment is not about the individuals its about us as onlookers. Passions provoked by crime are spontaneous but these reactions are voiced collectively and the third element: onlookers give rise to an important voice. Durkheim and the law law is a visible form of social solidarity. Crimes are not given or natural categories. Crimes are those acts which seriously violate a society"s conscience collective. Compare to how we define what is a crime according to marx base/superstructure.
