SOC313H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Offence, Natural Justice, Ultimate Power
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Lecture 6: the right to self-government with respect to social control. Readings: indigenous sentencing courts: towards a theoretical and jurisprudential model by elena, delivering justice in indigenous sentencing courts: what this means for judicial officers, Elders, community representatives, and indigenous court workers by elena marchetti. The curious case of the many trials of amanda knox. Found guilty of murdering her roommate with very little evidence. Jail in two years, crime is acquitted during a re-trial. Returns to us, arrested again for 25 years: weird foreign justice system of italian law, media coverage (tabloids) Court policies around the world (continued from last lecture) Required by law to visit your parents: never neglect elderly, able to detain those who don"t and make a schedule. 1970: italian courts were heavily criticised as slow and unable to properly defend defendants. 1989: italy began restructuring its inquisitorial system into a us-style adversarial one.
