LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Restorative Justice
Document Summary
Separation of power: a separation between legislature and judiciary. Judicial independence in fact restricted: legal systems embody material interests of the ruling class, judicial appointments made by highest representatives of the state. Concerned mainly with the creation and mobilization of consent for class structure: example capitalist structure. Relies upon law to ensure coercion and ideological acceptance. Counter hegemony: these claims do sometime prove effective. Global warming, genetically modified foods, refugee rights. Through coercion, law protects both: the state itself. Emergency powers of the state (war measures act: general conditions of capitalist order. Offences against both people and general social order. Ideologies are general beliefs and aims of society. When an employee misuses the employers time/property. Time as a commodity concept derives from industrial revolution. Linking productivity & criminal activity new (viewed as serious social problem by 1980s: under canadian law theft of time analogous to theft of company property, no canadian law specifically prohibits theft of time.
