CHAPTER 3-4 Flashcards
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Societal Type and Police System
- FOLK – COMMUNAL SOCIETIES
- URBAN – COMMERCIAL SOCIETIES
- URBAN – INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES
- BUREAUCRATIC SOCIETIES, OR MODERN POST – INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES
- POST-MODERN SOCIETY
– which are also called primitive societies
FOLK – COMMUNAL SOCIETIES
– has little codification of law, no specialization among police, and a system of punishment that just let things go for a while without attention until things become too much, and then harsh, barbaric punishment is resorted to.
FOLK – COMMUNAL SOCIETIES
-Classic examples include the early Roman gentiles, African and Middle Eastern tribes, and Puritan settlements in North America
FOLK – COMMUNAL SOCIETIES
– which rely on trade as the essence of their market system
URBAN – COMMERCIAL SOCIETIES
-Most of Continental Europe developed along this path.
URBAN – COMMERCIAL SOCIETIES
– has civil law (some standards and customs are written down), specialized police forces (some for religious offenses, others for enforcing the King’s law), and punishment is inconsistent, sometimes harsh, sometimes lenient.
URBAN – COMMERCIAL SOCIETIES
– which produce most of the goods and services they need without government interference
URBAN – INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES
– not only has codified laws (statutes that prohibit) but laws that prescribe good behavior, police become specialized in how to handle property crimes, and the system of punishment is run on market principles of creating incentives and disincentives.
URBAN – INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES
-England and the U.S. followed this positive legal path.
URBAN – INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES
– where the emphasis is upon technique or the “technologizing” of everything, with the government taking the lead
BUREAUCRATIC SOCIETIES, OR MODERN POST – INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES
– has a system of laws (along with armies of lawyers), police who tend to keep busy handling political crime and terrorism, and a system of punishment characterized by over criminalization and overcrowding.
BUREAUCRATIC SOCIETIES, OR MODERN POST – INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES
-The U.S. and perhaps only eight other nations fit the bureaucratic pattern.
BUREAUCRATIC SOCIETIES, OR MODERN POST – INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES
-Juvenile delinquency is a phenomenon that only occurs in a
BUREAUCRATIC SOCIETIES, OR MODERN POST – INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES
- where the emphasis is upon the meaning of words and the deconstruction of institutions.
POST-MODERN SOCIETY
OVERCRIMINALIZATION is the cause of
modernization
TYPES OF POLICE SYSTEMS
- COMMON/ COMMON LAW SYSTEMS
- CIVIL/ CIVIL LAW SYSTEMS
- SOCIALIST/ SOCIALIST SYSTEMS
- ISLAMIC/ ISLAMIC SYSTEMS
-are also known as Anglo-American justice, and exist in most English-speaking countries of the world, such as the U.S., England, Australia, and New Zealand.
COMMON/ COMMON LAW SYSTEMS
-They are distinguished by a strong adversarial system where lawyers interpret and judges are bound by precedent.
COMMON/ COMMON LAW SYSTEMS
are distinctive in the significance they attach to precedent (the importance of previously decided cases).
COMMON/ COMMON LAW SYSTEMS
-They primarily rely upon oral systems of evidence in which the public trial is a main focal point.
COMMON/ COMMON LAW SYSTEMS
- are also known as Continental justice or Romano-Germanic justice, and practiced throughout most of the European Union as well as elsewhere, in places such as Sweden, Germany, France, and Japan.
CIVIL/ CIVIL LAW SYSTEMS
-They are distinguished by a strong inquisitorial system where less right is granted to the accused, and the written law is taken as gospel and subject to little interpretation.
CIVIL/ CIVIL LAW SYSTEMS
are founded on the basis of natural law, which is a respect for tradition and custom. The sovereigns, or leaders, of a civil law system are considered above the law, as opposed to the common law notion that nobody is above the law.
CIVIL/ CIVIL LAW SYSTEMS (Romano-Germanic systems)