Chapta' Two

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Crime control and due process should compliment each other? Crime control equals stopping crime before it happens. Due process makes laws and legal proceedings fair for everyone. (Yay!) So, the way we try to stop crime should include making the laws equal but still having fair legal procedures to 1punish the offender should they commit a crime and 2deter them from doing the crime again.

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There are two different types of crime? Raffale Garofalo tried to make a natural definition of crime. His definition was really considered a comparison between ‘natural’ law and honorable law. In other words, we now have what is called mala in se crimes and mala prohibita crimes. Mala in se crimes are universally just plain evil; things like planned, cold blooded murder and molesting children. Mala prohibita crimes are evil because we say so, or rather we have forbidden them, such as driving without a seat belt and playing music loud enough to cause birds to explode at three o’clock in the morning (and if you are guilty of this you should be charged with animal cruelty!) ;-P


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Trying to figure out if law is socially defined or if “law” just exists is very intriguing. Think about it. Are there “laws” that aren’t written down or enforced, but we still have to follow them? Law of gravity anyone? If we as a society determined that gravity was no longer a law would we still be stuck to the ground or could we just float away like a little cloud? BUT if we didn’t have laws that were created by our society, would we be able to survive as peacefully as we do now? If there weren’t any speed limits, how many people would die? Honestly? Lots! So which is it? Or is it a little of both? Food for thought, no?