SOC 3730 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Grater, Procedural Law, Exclusionary Rule
13 Dec 2016
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Courts: family - divorce, division of assets, alimony, marriage, a civil arrangement, traffic - when people have been in trouble with traffic violation, does not deal with criminal traffic violations ex. fine: penal sanctions: punishments for particular crimes, penalties should fit the crime. Summary offences: court: mundane, does not take a lot of time, see a lot of these cases, all decisions are made by judges and not juries, cannot be fingerprinted for a summary offence. Structural marxism: do not view the middle class as cohesive group, they are conflicting: protection long term for the system, mediation by state between different competing groups, laws: to protect the people, ex. consumer laws, ei. Lecture 2: january 21st, history and cases in court. English common law: 1800s: courts, court of appeal: highest court, high court: only dealt with civil cases, crown court: deals with criminal cases, county court: low court, magistrates" court: lowest court, only deals with the most minor cases.
