IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1728: Crime and Deviance, III: Legalism
Thursday 4 July 2019, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Arc Humanities Press, Leeds |
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| Organiser: | Hannah Skoda, St John's College, University of Oxford |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ephraim Shoham-Steiner, Department of History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva |
| Respondent: | Hannah Skoda, St John's College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1728-a | The Heretic: Contingent and Commodified (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Lay Piety, Religious Life, Theology |
| Paper 1728-b | Attitudes to Rape in Western Europe (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Sexuality, Social History, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | Crime and deviance only become such when certain behaviours are thus designated. This session will examine the ways in which some behaviours and identities were categorised as criminal or deviant. It will also acknowledge the reciprocity of this process, exploring how some behaviours disrupted social orders. The focus will be upon the complex relationship between (mis)behaviours, and processes of demonization. This last session will focus on how legal discourse constructed three categories of criminal behaviour: domestic abuse, rape, and treason. The papers will study the behaviours behind these concepts, how they shaped their legal construction, and how and why legal discourse organised a variety of practices into deviant or criminal categories. |