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Outline the concepts of law, authority and justice Explain and analyse the reasons for punishment Laws in this sense mean prescriptive legal rules, as opposed to descriptive patterns of cause and effect in nature. They are the laws of society's making, rather than the laws of science. There are certain characteristics of these laws; they are designed and implicated by society for society, they reflect the conventions of the society which generates them, they are prescriptive which means that their members of that society must or must not do certain things. They can be violated, however sanctions are applied to those who do violate them, and sanctions are the prerogative and responsibility of the official government present in that society. The official government has the right and duty to monitor and modify the laws of the state, and citizens have to assimilate the laws and obey them, they cannot be excused on...

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