Sociology 2253A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Plaintext, Restorative Justice, Clifford Olson

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2253A/B
• Professor: Lisa Lyons

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Components of the due process model of the courts protect individual liberties make impartial decisions consider all relevant evidence follow procedural rules to discover truth. Components of the crime control model protect society from criminals ensure convictions and punishment of offenders achieve justice through deterrence and harsh punishments. Jury trial the specific role of a jury is to decide the facts from the trial evidence present and to apply the law (provide by the judge) to those facts to render a verdict. For what type of offences does the charter of rights and freedoms allow a defendant to have a jury? limited to offenses with maximum sentence of 5 years or more. Canadian trial judges do not have the authority to determine the impartiality of prospective jurors (in the. Legal rights and criminal trials every trial involves certain legal principles concerning the rights of the accused, these are specified in the.