concepts important

Question 1

True or false, a civilian is someone who isn’t allowed to carry a gun?

Answer 1

True.

Civilians don’t carry guns. Non-civilians do

Question 2

Who are the people called non-civilian?

Answer 2

army, police, some security guards

Question 3

Explain the concept of deterrence.

Answer 3

Idea that making a punishment worse or making the chances of getting caught higher will prevent people from doing the crime.

Question 4

What is the legitimate monopoly on violence, and what are the two things that make it legitimate?

Answer 4

The fact that a state’s security forces can only operate under legitimate civilian authority.
DDR: only non-civilian can shoot you, others will be disarmed, demobilized, and reintegrated.
SSR: Security system reforms: every person who can use force is under someone who can’t.

Question 5

What is a Leviathan, and what does it create?

Answer 5

a strong state/country that can actually use a system of non-violence and in which people are safe. It creates and legitimate monopoly on violence.

Question 6

Describe Honor Culture.

Answer 6

A culture where people avoid calling the authorities because society discourages it.

Question 7

Is the leviathan and the legitimate monopoly on violence present in honor culture? Explain

Answer 7

No, because the police and the army don’t have much power. The people handle their affairs by themselves.

Question 8

Explain diffusion of responsabily.

Answer 8

One person = more likely to help than many people

One person = less likely to do evil than many people

Question 9

What is the punishment for perjury? Why that much?

Answer 9

14 years and more. Because in a violent crime, always possibility you didn’t mean it. Lying, you cant do it on accident.

Question 10

Definition of a crime.

Answer 10

Law you break. Punishment. Jurisdiction.

Conduct that violates the law of a jurisdiction (area)

Question 11

What is the condition for a jurisdiction to have legitimate laws?

Answer 11

Had to be written by someone who was voted in.

Question 12

What is a law?

Answer 12

any formalized and integrated rule which imposes obligations on people ina certain jurisdiction.

Question 13

Why is a law that is not enforced, not a law?

Answer 13

Because no punishement = no crime = no law

Question 14

What is criminologist?

Answer 14

academic studies of crime, crime trends social analysis of crime. Ex: crime changes in time, why some people do crime in certain neighborhoods.

Question 15

What is criminology?

Answer 15

Interdisciplinary science studies criminal behaviour (form, causes, legal aspects, and control ).

Question 16

Explain scientific analysis of causes of crime?

Answer 16

Attemps to use science to predict which groups are most likely to commit crimes. Why some parts of cities have more crimes.

Question 17

Explain crime control.

Answer 17

Analyse the use of force, tactics, startegies, hard power approaches to provent or respond to crime.

Question 18

Who is Sutherland and what were his 3 points of sociology of law?

Answer 18

one of the first criminologist.

1) where do laws come from?
2) what are their effects?
3) do they support or contradict the culture?

Question 19

Explain the first law of Sutherland?

Answer 19

Different if country dictated by monarchy or democracy.

Question 20

Explain the second law of Sutherland?

Answer 20

What does this law mean for the country, for the people, more jobs for cops or judges, etc.

Question 21

Explain the third law of Sutherland?

Answer 21

Something unfair doesn’t support canadian culture.