Short Summary Of Laws Chapter 1

The book I read was “Chasing Lincoln’s killer” by James L. Swanson. This book is about the events that took place before, during, and after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. I enjoyed this book, because it was very informative, as well as fun to read. I also like how there were pictures to help explain the events. This book took place in Washington DC and Canada.

The Devil in The White City is a nonfiction book, that takes place in the years before, during and after the Chicago’s World Fair in 1893. Erik Larson is famous for writing historical nonfiction; he spends weeks, maybe even months researching the interesting historical events, and writing them for the public to understand in a better context. The two main characters in this interesting historical non-fiction book are; the protagonist, Daniel Hudson Burnham; who is an architect and has built many important structures such as Union Station in Washington D.C. and the Flatiron Building in New York. The antagonist, H.H. Holmes; a doctor that is famous for being one of the most notorious serial killers of all times, especially the urban killings.

When learning about some of the laws and policies enacted throughout history, it is important to understand the historical, social, and political context in which it was created. This does not mean that these contexts justify or alleviate blame from those who enacted these laws or policies, rather, examining the origin of these laws through an interdisciplinary approach can help to understand why these laws may have been created. Adam Cohen’s Imbeciles, discusses the United States eugenics movement and the sterilization of Carrie Buck. Using concepts from Kitty Calavita’s Invitation to Law and Society, Carrie Buck ’s sterilization will be analyzed from the lens of law and society scholarship.

People nowadays will mindlessly break a simple law, whether it be littering or speeding, it still affects those around you. Frank Trippett explains in his article that breaking a minor law has become a normal thing for people to do. He continues by providing examples of minor laws that are broken which consist of but are not limited to: littering, speeding, and noise pollution. He then states that people think only violent crimes matter in order to show how blind people are to the minor laws they are breaking everyday. He has an objective tone with society to try to get the point across that no law should be broken no matter how minor it is.

Imagine a world where books are illegal and firemen start fires instead of putting them out. A fireman named Montag lives in this world. Montag originally agreed with the laws against books but eventually broke them himself. Mildred eventually becomes sick of having the books in her house and breaking the law so she turns in an alarm against him. Montag then runs away and find the “book people” and live with them in the free community.

The relationship between the law and society affects everyone and everything. How the law is written and how it is acted upon in society are two different things. It is imperative, therefore, that we as citizens pay attention to and understand the importance of the relationship between the law and society as it affects both our own lives and the lives of those around us. We engage in and witness the power of the law and society everyday. The law is personal, however, the law is also discretionary depending on where you look.

Imagine if someone you loved was shot by a criminal. Your first instinct would be to call the cops; however, once you do, they say that there is nothing that can be done because there are no laws saying they have to punish the criminal. If there were no laws in society, criminals could get away with crimes repeatedly without any punishment. This is a prime example of why laws are needed in the modern day. The idea of laws in society has been around since King Hammurabi created a set of laws called “Hammurabi’s Code” in 1760 B.C. King Hammurabi made these laws so that his civilization would have more order and last longer than other civilizations.

Philosophers John Stuart Mill, Gerald Dworkin, Richard Thaler, and Cass Sunstein all tried to justify laws through three principles: the harm principle, legal paternalism, and libertarian paternalism. Mill’s harm principle only allows the government to create laws that impede an individual’s liberty to harm others. Whereas legal paternalism, according to Dworkin, allows laws to restrict an individual’s liberty for the individual’s own good. Thaler and Sunstein’s libertarian paternalism is different from Dworkin’s in how the paternalistic restrictions take place. The basis of all three is preventing an individual to harm others and I believe that sufficiently justifies laws.

As we go through our daily lives, we come across various situations in which we are required to make a choice that is largely based on the norms in our society. Of the three types of norms, the ones seen most frequently in my life are laws and folkways. After spending the day trying to actively capture the ways in which these laws affect my life, this is what I have come to realize. The way we interact with one another, and the things that we do while in each others presence are key points to showing how certain, yet unwritten laws come into play in our every day lives.

This isn 't the first time that "bureaucratic determinism," where administrators declare themselves powerless to exert discretion and end up punishing students for infractions that even they agree didn 't contain any elements of threat or aggression, has triggered calls for a more lenient approach. Public outrage and media exposure have succeeded in reversing sanctions in cases such as suspensions when a student makes a "finger gun" (some schools interpret any such displays as threats). It 's an uphill battle, though, and the stone rolls down as soon as it reaches the top. A 13-year-old girl received a three-day suspension from a Texas middle school for a finger gun in 2010, making headlines; in December 2012, the hammer of justice came down on a 6-year-old, who received a one-day suspension from a Maryland elementary school for the same reason. That incident made the Washington Post, with over a thousand comments lambasting the school administrators for overreacting; nonetheless, in October of 2013, an 8-year-old was suspended for a day in Florida, also for making a finger

Laws "punish people who violate the norms," They tell people what is right and wrong in society not stop it. The number of people going to jail that did the crime has increased. According to the PrisonPolicy.org, there are about one million convicted prisoner in prison. One million is a lot of people and the number is increasing all because laws don 't morally connect with those people. Laws are meant to make an order in our chaotic world , but since we have free will it will never work.

Society was built on the foundation of rules and laws for many centuries. The concept behind particular rules and regulations have been considered the reason why communities have been able to be kept in order. In every country, rules that are put in place are created for the good of society; however, not every rule and law established has made that nation better. For instance, in the United States, take into consideration the zero-tolerance policy, which was created to protect students across all schools in the United States; ridding it of issues that may affect the students from having a better education, such as drugs or weapons. However, the zero-tolerance policy has become ever so complicated as many years have gone by since its establishment.

The relationship between morality and law Morality comes from one 's own culture and religion. It right and wrong are based on one 's own conscience and they are not punished even if they are wrong. On the contrary, the law is formulated by the state and whether or not a person makes mistakes can be measured by law. If the offender is found guilty, the offender must be punished according to the law. Some important ethical behaviours that people frequently make mistakes will be enacted as laws.

magine a world without laws, Imagine people being able to commit crimes without anything being done, Imagine how all this important information about laws and why we have them would be nothing in the world today. Crimes are committed on a daily basis, but the law does everything to help those people who are in danger of committing those crimes by stopping them before it’s too late. sometimes the crimes are committed before the law can get to them so enforcement takes the job of taking their freedom away for them. Law Enforcement is important because without it everyone would be afraid of life. Everyone needs it for as long as Humanity exists because as humans people create mistakes that can severely harm and hurt others.

What I will explain to you in this article will, how we are connected with the law and I hope, make you see sense in the importance of our laws in the society we live in. To be against the importance of laws in our society would show one to be ignorant and naïve. I encounter the law on a daily basis when I am driving. I have to follow the speed limit of each road, I have to signal before changing lanes, my vehicle must be in good condition in order to safely drive and I must obey all road signs as they are set in place to ensure the safety of everybody.