CC102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Slippery Slope, Canadian Human Rights Act, Westminster System
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Chapter 2 the structure and process of criminal justice. Criminal justice system: all the agencies, organizations and personnel that are involved in the prevention of, and response to, crime and to persons charged with criminal offences and persons convicted of crimes. The flow of cases through the criminal justice system: incident, police, courts, federal, provincial levels of courts, whether or not someone can afford a good lawyer oppose to finding someone guilty or not, corrections and parole. Diversion: system designed to filter out low risks, each stage of the system designed to minimize intakes and offer alternatives, 3rd parties lobby for change, the criminal justice funnel: Basic principles of the adversarial system: presumption of innocence, innocent until conviction beyond a reasonable doubt, burden of proof, take of crown to prove guilt, doli incapax, child under 12 cannot be criminally responsible.
