CRM 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2-3: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Cybercrime

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 100
• Professor: Anne- Marie Singh

Document Summary

Addressing the high cost of crime and criminal justice. Annual cost of cjs = 13 billion. Many political, cultural freedoms = religions and legal issues. Religious tribunals existed but as of 2004, there is one court for all of ontario. Issues of niqab and hijab for muslim women. Sophisticated crime like drug trafficking, identity theft, computer crime. Imets, rcmp and cfseu are groups against organized crime. Meeting the needs of special groups of offenders. Sex offenders, violent offenders, elderly offenders and offenders with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and hiv/aids. Major groups in programs for women offenders. Adopting the administration of justice to the task environment of criminal justice. Task environment: the cultural, geographic and community setting in which the cjs operates and where the cj personnel makes decisions. Many task environments which dictate decisions within each environment. Addressing public perceptions of crime and the cjs. Media reports over sensationalize crime ratings = 1999