SOC346H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Victimisation, Adversarial System, Alternative Dispute Resolution
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25 march 2011- non-confidence vote, government falls. For the first time in canadian history, prime minister in contempt of parliament: failed to provide required financial documents to legislature. Refused to provide financial projections for crime legislation. Ignatieff- when the government spends money, the people have a right to know what it is to be spent on. The government is wrapping its crime legislation in the cloak of public safety. As in other areas of criminal justice policy, the harper government appears to be a bunch of amateurs with blunt instruments: not impressed with shifts in policy. It appears that for people such as mr. newark, statistics canada is never wrong as long as it reports that crime rates are increasing. If it says crime is decreasing, then it s never right. The fact of the matter is that crime rates have nothing to do with tougher laws or harsher sentencing. The fact is that crime rates go up and down.
