LAWS 3306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Equal Protection Clause, Strip Search, Crown Attorney
10 Apr 2017
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Packer believed that due process would promote equality in the law. At this time, there was a significant amount of racial duress and violence. Packer believed at this time that his model would fix this problem because his model was supposed to check the power of the state and ensure that civil liberties are not violated by the state. However, in canada, what we see is that despite these due process movements, minorities maintain to be overrepresented in the criminal justice system. Minorities are disproportionately represented and this inequality maintains to be a problem: minorities and due process. There is a large overrepresentation, in canada, for blacks, aboriginals and gay/lesbian minorities. Process victories seem to have only holstered symbolic outcomes and not movements toward change. There was this belief that criminal law is what is able to control crime and yet we know this not to be true. a.
