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CRM 1300 Lecture : 4. The State and Crime.docx

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skytoad178
16 Mar 2012
School
University of Ottawa
Department
Criminology
Course
CRM 1300
Professor
Sam Alvaro

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The state is an institution that claims the exclusive right to exercise force in a given territory through the use of the police and armed forces. Monarchy: transfers powers from generation to generation within a single family. Democracy: generally is representative rather than fully participatory. Authoritarianism: is a political sys tem that denies popular participation in government (korea) Totalitarianism: is a political system, that extensively regulates peoples lives (china) The vagrancy laws constituted an abundance of cheap labour to england"s ruling elite, during a period when serfdom was breaking don and the pool of labour was depleting. Vagrancy laws today: moving homeless people out of cities (olympics), loitering. British common law is major source of law in canada. Under bna act (1867) only federal government can make criminal law. Uneven development of law enforcement across canada. May be heard in the higher courts. Higher penalties (2 years or more in prison)

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