Crime and Social Control (lec 8) Flashcards
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what is Albion’s Fatal Tree?
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book by Douglas Hay
explores 18th century British society and criminal elements
2
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What is The bloody code?
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name given to the English legal system late 17th Century to the early 19th Century
-Massive jump in death penalty prosecutions
-But relatively few hangings
3
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What was Hay’s argument about how law can function?
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law can function as an ideology
4
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What are the 3 ways law can function as an ideology?
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-Majesty
-Justice
-Mercy
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