LAWS 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Paul Bernardo, Crime Comics, Community Policing
11 Nov 2016
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2 hours long try to use the whole time. Contemporary dilemma from the headlines accountability mechanisms consider: Thinking back to roher, crime comics, and obscenity, and our conversations about http://www. cbc. ca/news/canada/toronto/paul-bernardo-e-book-may-hurt-serial- killer-s-slim-chance-at-parole-1. 3318402. Paul bernardo day parole hearing in march 2017: http://www. theglobeandmail. com/news/national/paul-bernardo-scheduled-for- day-parole-hearing-in-march/article32610899: history, functions, selective enforcement: how/why, powers, duties, realities, review/accountability mechanisms. Police: accountability mechanisms (cont"d): criminal law, courts, inquiries, external review, and preventive techniques. Doe had been attacked by rapist and sued police: argued knew identifiable class of victims and should have warned them rights violated. Damages on 2 grounds: negligence for not warning/protecting, and s. 7/s. 15. Police argued didn"t warn as offender would relocate and continue to offend. Court: police didn"t warn as thought women would panic and harm. Duty was there to warn, and so negligent. Also duty to prevent crime on part investigation (other investigators in similar case had warned) of police.
