LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Social Control, Regulatory Offence, Summary Offence
9 Sep 2015
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Criminal law as a method of social control: criminal law: imposes a prohibition with a penal consequence for a public purpose(being maintaining peace, order, health, and security, criminal sanction, formal social control, negative social control, legalization of norms regarding public behavior, historical evolution of criminal law, 1036 transformation that some acts are not only wrong towards one person only but towards the whole state. (disturbing the king"s peace, a move towards codification. Criminal procedure: how the courts are supposed to follow: s92(15) of constitution act criminal trials, power for provinces to impose punishment by fine, penalty, or imprisonment for any law under their jurisdiction, criminal code is not the only criminal law, ex: cdsa , selling and buying drugs and attached, ex: food and drug safety act. Media shifts the debate, legislator will look at law if there shees to: media be a crisis, public at large, interests groups, application/enforcement.
