Forms of social reaction against criminality

• Author: Alina Zaharia
• Position: Legal advisor
• Pages: 107-112

AGORA International Journal of Juridical Sciences, http://univagora.ro/jour/index.php/aijjs

ISSN 1843-570X, E-ISSN 2067-7677

No. 2 (2019), pp. 107 - 112

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FORMS OF SOCIAL REACTION AGAINST CRIMINALITY

A. ZAHARIA

Alina ZAHARIA

Legal advisor / Graduate "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iași, Faculty of Philosophy

and Social-Political Sciences, Master Program Probation, Mediation and Social Assistance

for Crime Victims

Mailing address: City of Iași, Vasile Lupu street, no. 140, staircase A, 2nd section, 6th floor,

12th apartment, Iasi county, Romania

E-mail: alinna.zaharia@gmail.com

ABSTRACT:

In the first part we define some forms of social reaction against crime conceived as a

mechanism of social and normative organization, perpetuating itself differently from one

society to another, depending on the specifics of each one, referring to the system of

ethical, normative and cultural values. Next, we identify aspects related to fight against

criminality, which consider the way of establishing some forms of social control, from a

social/ legislative/ institutional/ state/ contextual norms perspective, that are found in the

public or private space.

KEY WORDS: social reaction, social control, criminality, prevention, punishment.

INTRODUCTION

The social reaction against criminality represents the legal disapproval and social

protest materialized in preventive measures from the perspective of some forms of social

control or measures to remove causes and conditions that generate or favor the adoption of

criminal behavior, the treatment applied to criminals either minors, adults, women or

repeat offenders. On the other hand, it is materialized in punitive measures that apply to the

perpetrators who have committed an act that summarizes the conditions for committing a

crime

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Given that the members of a society differ one another, disturbances of the

equilibrium state can be created precisely through the contrast of each one's diversified

concepts. That is why the forms of social reaction, together with the social control come to

establish some norms (imperative or supplementary) and habits that balance the social

stratification and the dissonance of ideas

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It is easy to understand that the social reaction against crime is also a topic of

criminology, forming a branch that studies social psychology, with the particularities

related to the legal-criminal field, referring to the causal and non-causal doctrinal theories.

In light of this idea, we make a compact characterization to a form of preventive reaction, a

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Article 15 paragraph (1) of the Penal Code of Romania published in the Official Monitor no. 510/ 24.07.2009.

2

C. Loghin, Conflicte – meto de alternative de administrare și soluționare, Ed. Univ. Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iasi,

2016, p. 43.