LAWS 3306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Victimless Crime, Due Process, Miranda Warning
13 May 2017
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De ned: the activities that respond to crime. The triangle process (the law moving in the shape of a pyramid) Small amount of cases go to trial, a lot of people who are tried with a criminal offence, plea guilty to the offence. Large majority of the spending are going to policing (the most), then corrections, the court system, tip of the triangle is spent on providing legal aid (someone who cannot afford legal counsel) Crime-control: focuses on ef ciency (straight line is the most ef cient way to get from one thing to another, conveyer belt (has a start and a nish) At one end we have factual guilt (reasonable probable grounds: this starts it off and enters them into the criminal system. Changes in young persons at this time. The sc of the us: packers believed in decriminalization to have things work properly, but this theory was before feminism happened in the us.
