ATS1282 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Control, Identity Element, Homicide
26 Oct 2018
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Aim to prevent/limit the harm caused by crime. Heavily linked to political and social aspects of our society. People who work within cjs include police officers, prosecutors, defence attorneys, judicial officers, probation officers and correctional staff (community. & institutional) > these agents" act on their own discretion which can cause problems. Instrumental/practical aims of cjs > preventing crime and reducing the number of crimes. Symbolic aims of cjs > cjs aim to remedy imbalances created by criminals (daly, 2011) Common legal system: case law is very important (looks to precedents set by the outcome of previous cases) vs. civil legal system: work from codified statutes (law that is written). Many countries use a combination of these two systems. Adversarial justice system: the common law system (found in australia, uk, Comprised of a prosecution team and a defence team with their own evidence presented in front of a judge/jury who then decide the outcome.
