Law, Crime And Justice Topic
Formal authorized rationality was his term for the key attribute of the type of coherent and calculable law that was a precondition for contemporary political developments and the modern bureaucratic state. Weber saw this law as having developed in parallel with the expansion of capitalism. Other notable early legal sociologists included Hugo Sinzheimer, Theodor Geiger, Georges Gurvitch and Leon Petrażycki in Europe, and William Graham Sumner in the united states Modern military, policing and bureaucratic energy over ordinary citizens’ daily lives pose special issues for accountability that earlier writers similar to Locke or Montesquieu could not have foreseen. The custom…
