CRIM 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mental Disorder, Mens Rea, Homicide

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 131
• Professor: s

Document Summary

2 categories of law: public law (tv shows) **it involves the crown and individual person or group*: civil law (private) Contracts, torts, inheritance, divorce, custody and property ownership ex: disputes between citizens *ex: divorce, suing a person, anything on judge judy) *can take someone to both civil and criminal court (ex: someone go to criminal court for murder, but need to go to civil court for financial compensation) A case can go to civil court without going to criminal court. Can a case go to criminal court without going to civil court? yes) Outlines the possible criminal defences for crimes (ex: not guilty due to mental disorder) Social control (outlines appropriate behaviour and consequences if you don"t behave appropriately) Order maintenance (functions to maintain order in society) Functions as deterrence (trying to deter people from behaviour) General: showing that there are punishments associated with a crime to show the society as a whole.