How the Law Creates and Deals With Consensus (OCR A-Level Law): Flashcards

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How the law creates and deals with consensus
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Law's main function re: rights & interests

Creates balance when they conflict

Substantive law deals with

Conflicts between individuals; defines rights/duties

Procedural law deals with

Conflicts between individuals & state; sets processes

Roscoe Pound's theory name

Social engineering

Consensus theory view on crime cause

Social institutions lose control over individuals

Conflict theory view of society

Groups with competing & incompatible interests

Labelling theory - how crime is created

Socially constructed through labelling process

Left realism - main cause of crime

Inequality

Right realism - who is responsible for crime

The individual

Durkheim's concept for the state

Collective conscience

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