CJL 3038 Key PASSED Exam (Actual / ) 72 Questions And 100% Verified CORRECT Answers
Universal Law
- Divine rules
- Religious edicts that tend to reach all countries and cultures
International Law
- Law treaties, trade
- Relationship between countries and societies
Socialist Legal Systems
- Variations exist in many parts of the world, China, North
- Communal values
- The popular will (as perceived by the Communist Party)
- Collective ownership is key, nationalized, with state-owned
Korea, Vietnam, Cuba
property, means of production, raw materials
Islamic Legal Systems
- Variations exist in manily Middle Eastern, Arab countries,
most of North Africa, and in Pakastani and Bangladeshi regions 1 / 3
- Law is not independent of religion
- Hybrid of inquisitorial and adversarial systems
- Don't typically see juries
Robert Merton Defined manifest and latent functions and the idea of dysfunction
Manifest Functions Those objective consequences contributing to the adjustment of the system which are intended and recognized by
participants in the system (Ex: minimum wage sets an explicit
minimum for how much people will make an hour)
Latent Functions Unclear and unforeseen functions of these social phenomena
(Ex: minimum wage made unemployment go up due to
businesses not being able to pay higher wages)
Dysfunction Unanticipated negative outcomes that run counter to the intended purpose of individual actions, social structures, or 2 / 3
social policies. Both manifest and latent functions of the law can cause dysfunction
Social Control
- Many methods of social control
- Law is a formal means of social control
- Explicit rules of conduct
- Planned use of sanctions and punishments to support those
- Designated officials to interpret and enforce the rules, and
- Legal institutions are responsible for creating and
rules of conduct
often to make them
maintaining the rules and norms that define deviant behavior
Dispute Settlement/Resolution
- Alternative to other means from dispute resolution
- Law = formal means of dispute resolution
- Adjudication, mediation
- Adopting more informal means of resolution to law
Social Change
- Law can be a mechanism for social change
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