SOC 3740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Small Claims Court, Major Crimes, Natural Person
2 Feb 2017
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Canada"s courts (mccormick): chapter 2: the courts and the public. At any time only a minority of canadians will be directly involved in a criminal or civil court action s litigant or witnesses. A few more will take advice from a lawyer on the action or behaviour they should follow to accomplish their purposes or the action or behaviour they should avoid to stay out of trouble with the law. The most obvious and certainly the most newsworthy judicial activities involve the resolution of criminal cases. About 3 million criminal cases are committed a year, which is more then one for every ten canadians. The crime rate rises as one moves from east to west, the major exception being unusually high rates for armed robbery in quebec. Canadian crime rates generally display similarity to those of france than to either us or great britain.
