CC102 Lecture 1: CC102 - Lecture 1
Document Summary
3 major agencies: the police, the courts, corrections. Purpose: to maintain law and order, protect public from law breakers. These agencies come together to investigate, detect, prosecute and punish. Police: front line of crime control, report and investigate crime. Courts: the core of the criminal justice system, adversarial style, provincial vs. federal courts. Corrections: handles convicted offenders, philosophy rehabilitation and deterrence. Innocent until proven guilty: goal, obtain fair justice for all, recognize the rights of suspect throughout the process. Crime control model: get tough on crime, law and order approach, goal, arrest and conviction; strict on criminals. Collecting crime data allows us to explain when crime occurs, what crimes and why. Prevalence of crime: # of people participating in crime at a given time. Incidence of crime: frequency with which offenders commit crime. Crime rate: # of offences that occur per population. Official stats: recorded using the ucr uniform crime reporting survey, reflects the official crime rate.
