CRMJ 205 1st Edition Lecture 18 Outline of Last Lecture I Documentary Outline of Current Lecture The Court Process I Disparity in the Process II Political Function III Symbolic Assailant IV 1960s When This All Happened V Authoritarian Function VI Key Flexibility VII Grine and History Current Lecture I Disparity in the Process a What accounts for such disparity in arrest rates Life and Death of a Dealer II Political Function a Crime prevention aims to prevent violent interpersonal crime Reduce threat to society Preventative interception removes predators before they are predators Once predators remove them for longer durations or remove the potential b Intervene at the earliest possible moment Facilitated expanded sentencing conservative sentencing and Diagnosing dangerousness III Symbolic Assailant a May commit crime because of drugs b May commit crime to obtain drugs c Focus on the precursors criminalize possession Burglary tools and drugs d Crime prevention is the focus on the Dangerous Class a social construction of who is dangerous and what actions are innate e Sterilization Program Recipients Alcoholics with disabilities welfare recipients victims of rape women deemed promiscuous and feeble minded individuals These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute f Despite the community nomenclature this is dominated by the bootstrap us vs them mentality IV 1960 s When All This Happened a Bourgeois obsession with freedom of fear Symbolic but punitive policy Placate to irrational fear Middle class is not at risk violent crime but symbolic actions generate fear thus reinforcing more punitive policy b SCOTUS Soft on Crime V Authoritarian Function a Prevention of crime is to reduce threat to the state The victim is not a person nor the community rather it is the state social interests b What happens when the victims disappear c There is no rehabilitation no victim services no empathy the purpose is punishment The individual victim is of no interest of what they want or need VI Key Flexibility a More laws convenience of fact minimize men s rea requirements streamlined process b Little need for jury crime is the crime did you possess the drugs plea bargains is acceptable and highlighted c 96 of crime cases are reconciled via pretrial plea bargaining d 722 increase in the prison population since 1970 tripling of federal prison populations VII Grine and History a Fugitive Slave Act 1850 b Any black person in a free state could be claimed as an escaped slave on the word alone of a southerner c A hearing was conveyed with a commissioner not a judge d No proof necessary the slave could not testify e Slave could not challenge the word of the person f False accusations were rarely challenged
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