SOSC 1375
SOSC 1375: Midterm Study Guide
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Be prepared to provide short definitions of the following terms (terms drawn from lectures and readings):
Separation Thesis (Law and Morality)
One Juror Verdict Theory
Natural Law Theory
Challenge for Cause
Legal Positivism
Peremptory Challenge
Public Law
Plea Bargaining
Civil Law
Sentencing Circles
Procedural Law
Narratology
Constitutional Law
Legal Consciousness
Criminal Law
Moral panic
Administrative Law
Customary law punishment—payback
Tort Law
Targeted killing
Unified Court System
Terrorism as a crime or act of war
Canadian Judicial Council Power of the State
Outline of Canada’s Court System
Family Law
Law as a technical game
Bill C – 41
Laws of War and Laws of Armed Conflict
Treaty of Westphalia
Drone War
Legal Pluralism (Culpability and Responsibility as understood in both Western and Aboriginal Law) Sentencing Circles
Law as containment
Rule of Law
Medicalization
Canadian Criminal Code
Statutory Law
Common Law
Moral vs. Medicalized Vocabulary
Sec. 16 of the Criminal Code (Defence of Mental Disorder) Heart Balm Law Suits
Shadow Jury
Collateral Damage
ICC
II
Be prepared to write short essays (1 or 2 paragraphs) on the following cases.
What do the following cases illustrate? (Some of the concepts you should be prepared to apply in your answers are: narratology, social norms, construction of normal and abnormal, from moral to medicalized vocabulary, ideal of womanhood and manhood, criminal responsibility, social background and culpability, theories of punishment.) Clara Ford (1894) Carrie Davies (1915) R. v. Daviault (1994) R. v. Stone (1999) R. v. Gladue (1999) Dobson v. Dobson Sue Rodriguez case Anwar Al – Awlaki case R. v. Moses (1992) Shafia case
I
Be prepared to provide short definitions of the following terms (terms drawn from lectures and readings):
Separation Thesis (Law and Morality)
One Juror Verdict Theory
Natural Law Theory
Challenge for Cause
Legal Positivism
Peremptory Challenge
Public Law
Plea Bargaining
Civil Law
Sentencing Circles
Procedural Law
Narratology
Constitutional Law
Legal Consciousness
Criminal Law
Moral panic
Administrative Law
Customary law punishment—payback
Tort Law
Targeted killing
Unified Court System
Terrorism as a crime or act of war
Canadian Judicial Council Power of the State
Outline of Canada’s Court System
Family Law
Law as a technical game
Bill C – 41
Laws of War and Laws of Armed Conflict
Treaty of Westphalia
Drone War
Legal Pluralism (Culpability and Responsibility as understood in both Western and Aboriginal Law) Sentencing Circles
Law as containment
Rule of Law
Medicalization
Canadian Criminal Code
Statutory Law
Common Law
Moral vs. Medicalized Vocabulary
Sec. 16 of the Criminal Code (Defence of Mental Disorder) Heart Balm Law Suits
Shadow Jury
Collateral Damage
ICC
II
Be prepared to write short essays (1 or 2 paragraphs) on the following cases.
What do the following cases illustrate? (Some of the concepts you should be prepared to apply in your answers are: narratology, social norms, construction of normal and abnormal, from moral to medicalized vocabulary, ideal of womanhood and manhood, criminal responsibility, social background and culpability, theories of punishment.) Clara Ford (1894) Carrie Davies (1915) R. v. Daviault (1994) R. v. Stone (1999) R. v. Gladue (1999) Dobson v. Dobson Sue Rodriguez case Anwar Al – Awlaki case R. v. Moses (1992) Shafia case
