Q 1. What are the specific aims and purposes of criminal law? To what extent does the criminal law control behavior? Do you believe that the law is too restrictive or not restrictive enough? 2. If you ran the world, which acts that are now legal would you make criminal? Which criminal acts would you legalize? What would be the probable consequences of your actions? 3. Beccaria argued that the threat of punishment controls crime. Are there other forms of social control? Aside from the threat of legal punishment, what else controls your own behavior?
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