LAWS 3306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Restorative Justice, Strip Search, Reverse Discrimination
5 Dec 2017
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Introduction: danger of due process legitimizing the system being fair, overrepresentation of victims in our justice system are persons of colour, indigenous people, and transgender people, minorities and due process. Investigative stops: ericson study: found that police engage in confident proactive steps as a not so subtle way to remind marginal people of the order of things. In toronto in the 1970s, to certain groups who did not conform to societal norms. The court took note of system discrimination in. This will entrench fairness in the mind of the accused person. Lines: the crown challenged a provision of the charter for the criminal code: the crown invokes the charter rights of the victims in order to strike down a piece of the criminal code. It worked: parliament responds by enacting s. 25 (4) in the criminal code, dean 1997: protests involving indigenous individuals occupying land, a protester was shot by a police officer.
