3.1. Functions and Limitations of Law

What is the primary function of laws as a formal means of social control?

According to Kerper (1979), how many major limitations of the law did he identify?

Which historical event is used as an example to illustrate Kerper's first limitation of law, that it cannot gain community support without the backing of other social institutions?

What term does Lippman (2015) use to describe situations where the law promotes inequality or serves the interests of a small number of individuals rather than the welfare of society?

Which of the following is NOT listed as one of Kerper's four major limitations of the law?

According to the text, what distinguishes formal social control, like laws, from informal social control, like social media?

What does Lawrence Friedman identify as a dysfunction of law related to its rigidity?

According to Friedman, why might reliance on law and courts discourage democratic political activism?

What is meant by the statement that the law's resolution of disputes is 'dependent upon a complicated and expensive fact-finding process'?

Lippman's concept of 'dysfunctions of law' suggests that law can be used to repress individuals and limit their rights. How does the text describe this phenomenon?

Which of the following points is listed as one of Lawrence Friedman's identified dysfunctions of law?

What is the second limitation of law identified by Kerper?

How does Friedman explain the law's slowness to change?

What does the text identify as a potential negative consequence of the law reflecting the interests of powerful economic interests?

The concept that law can 'impede social change because it may limit the ability of individuals to use the law to vindicate their rights and liberties' is attributed to which scholar?

What is the core purpose of law as described in the first sentence of the section?

Friedman notes that courts are often reluctant to second-guess the decisions of political decision-makers. In what specific circumstances is this reluctance particularly noted?

According to the text, what is a key difference between the 'limitations' of law (Kerper) and the 'dysfunctions' of law (Lippman/Friedman)?

Which of these functions is NOT mentioned as a way laws and legal rules promote social control?

What reason does the text give for why informal social controls like social media are not considered 'the law'?

The use of legal actions to harass individuals or to gain revenge is identified as a dysfunction of law by which scholar?

In the context of Friedman's dysfunctions, what does the text suggest about the law's relationship with precedent?

What is the consequence of law being 'used to repress individuals and limit their rights,' according to Lippman?

The example of self-defense rules not applying neatly to situations of battered women who use force against consistent abuse illustrates which of Friedman's dysfunctions?

What is the central idea behind Kerper's fourth limitation, that 'the law changes slowly'?