LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Social Change, Mens Rea
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Victims (clarke: role of the victim in crim law (limited to number of functions, crown culture (adversarial) and wrongful conviction (green) Who: over-representation in jails why? (myths and solutions, plea bargaining (3 kinds) shadow justice system (cid:883). To supply the system with (cid:498)raw materials(cid:499) (cid:523)conflicts(cid:524) for example the j. a: to serve as a (cid:498)ceremonial(cid:499) or (cid:498)symbolic(cid:499) presence with legitimizes the. Someone to point to, (cid:498)this is why we are all here(cid:499): financial repartition (low use!) Enforcement: range of (cid:498)awards(cid:499) very broad k-k, no guarantee application process. The problem: it has already been decided guilty or not guilty. It is just the sentence and talking to the court may not affect the sentence at all. Far too hard on the families and the victims to go through this every year but this is not fair to the offender (choice) to rights of accused/offender. Both: clark argues that (cid:498)society has an obligation to those who suffer from one of its inevitable features(cid:499).
