Legislation

Legislation of Morality

In The Division of Labor in Society ([1893] 1984), Emile Durkheim advanced the idea that the distinctive sociological feature of crime is society’s reaction to it. Durkheim was writing at a time when Lombroso’s view on the heritability of criminality dominated scientific and popular opinion. Science sought the etiology of crime in the biology of

Gun Control Legislation and School Violence

In 1791, the United States Constitution was ratified. The Second Amendment of the Constitution states, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” This amendment has since been debated in the courts and legislatures. Over the

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