CRIM 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Restorative Justice, Adversarial System, Due Process
15 Mar 2016
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Challenges to cjs (part 1): restoraive jusice, cj costs and the charter. Canada"s shit to get tough approach to crime. Crime control: protecion of public, swit certain, eicient, rights of vicim, strong presumpion of guilt, Due process: ensure equal jusice for all ciizens, deliberate, ensure procedural fairness, rights of criminal defendants, presumpion of innocence, liberal. Inluences on cjs: fiscal pressure, religious beliefs, legislaion, media, diversity, poliics, ideology, Research, interest groups/moral entrepreneurs, the task environment, cultural values. Task environment: cultural, geographic, and community seing in which cjs operates and personnel make decisions. The criminal jusice funnel: (small fracion) of cases actually go through the cjs. *criminal jusice: crime- violaion of law and state, violaions create guilt, jusice assigns blame imposes pain, vicims are peripheral, central focus: punishment its crime; retribuion. *restoraive jusice: crime-violaion of people and relaionships, violaions create obligaions, Jusice involves vicims, ofenders and communiies, vicims involved, central focus: vicim"s needs and ofender responsibility, repairing harm.
