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Crime Crime definedhttp://www.lectlaw.com/def/c330 Below are web sites dealing with two relatively new types of crimes.
http://www.stophate2000.org http://www.unitedagainsthate.org/main.cfm Moral Crusades The passage of the Eighteenth Amendment represents the culmination of a morale crusade by a number of individuals and organizations to declare the use of alcohol as evil, deviant, and ultimately against the law. Below are several links to sites dealing with prohibition and the temperance movement. Review these and related sites and in light of what you learn be prepared to identify and discuss:
http://www.geocities.com/athens/troy/4399/ http://prohibition.osu.edu/ http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/oct28.html Criminal Law Compare and contrast the laws of William the Conqueror and the Code of Hammurabi.
http://elsinore.cis.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/medieval/lawwill.htm Code of Hammurabi. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.html Much of our law and legal system is derived from the Greek and Roman systems. For descriptions of these systems use the links below. http://www.ancienthistory.about.com/cs/greeklaw/ http://www.ancienthistory.about.com/cs/romelaw/ Leopold and Loeb http://www.crimelibrary.com/loeb/loeb/loebmain.htm http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/LEOPLOEB/LEOPOLD.htm |