CRM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Actus Reus, Spontaneous Remission, Larceny

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 101
• Professor: Daniel Alati

Document Summary

Part 1: the criminal law and its processes. Criminal law in canada (after 1867: under the british north america (bna) act (1867), the federal government can make criminal law; provinces enforce the law, police of canada act (1868) The police of canada act created the dominion police, and the north-west mounted police (nwmp) began in 1873; the force became federal royal canadian mounted police (rcmp) in 1920: criminal code of canada (1892) Parliament codified the first criminal code in 1892, supplemented by municipal bylaws and provincial regulations. The consolidation of a number of criminal offences into the criminal code of canada: continuously updated. What is contained in today"s criminal code of canada is very different than what was contained in the code in. *not all these sources of law are equal; constitution is supreme, so any decisions made by the statutes/judge- made law must conform to the constitution.