LAWS 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Paulo Freire, Peel Regional Police, Paul Bernardo
Document Summary
In real criminal justice, things go on for weeks, months, and even years. justice. We tend not to hear much about the success stories: focus on the sensational cases. At the same time, criminal justice agencies misinform the public about crime. If someone is convicted and is facing prison time, the judge counts each day on remand as contributing two days towards the sentence: social media. Electronic communication allowing people to post and share ideas, information, videos, and photographs: people are becoming a lot more involved in creating the news. And in doing so, in a very speedy way: the police in particular are subject to being exposed. When people see incidents, they start recording: sammy yatin case. He started acting out on a streetcar, when the police came one of them shot him 9 times and then tasered him. In 2011 there was a riot in vancouver.
