CRIM 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: O. J. Simpson Murder Case, Adversarial System, Decision-Making
20 Oct 2016
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~decision making plays a role at each stage (professional judgement, intuition, experience) The crime funnel (on exam)- illustrates how the system operates: real level of crime (large #, we don"t know, detected crime, reported crime, recorded crime, arrests, convictions, punishment, incarceration (small #, we do know) Murder is the most accurate out of all statistic because people notice dead bodies. Non-custodial sentence- fees, probation, fines (criminal sentence served elsewhere in a prison) Roles and responsibilities of government: constitution act- establish federal/provincial responsibilities, federal- which behaviours are crime, provincial- law enforcement, administration of cjs, municipal- policing, by-law enforcement. Absolute power to create, amend, repeal criminal line. Sets procedures for prosecution and associated punishment. Every person has the right to defend themselves or have someone else defend them. ~truth will emerge from materials presented by two sides (crown and defence) (unique to canada) children under 12 can"t be held responsible for crime because they don"t have the mental capacity.
