CRIM 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Indictable Offence, Regulatory Offence, True Crime
28 Aug 2016
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Criminal law: the area of the law that delineates the rules and principles of culpability for acts and omissions deemed by the state to be crimes. Federal criminal power: under the constitution act, 1867, the parliament of canada has exclusive jurisdiction in the field of criminal law and the procedures relating to criminal matters. Conduct that is prohibited may also include the failure to act when there is a legally imposed duty to take action. Offences over which a provincial court judge has absolute jurisdiction. Offences that are triable only by a superior court of criminal jurisdiction. True crimes: offences that represent a serious breach of community values and are considered both wrong and deserving of punishment: consists of those offences contained in the criminal code as well as offences in the controlled. Regulatory offences: concerned with the regulation of inherently legitimate activities. The courts threat these two types of offence in a significantly different manner.
