LAWS 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Assisted Suicide, Sexual Assault, Mothers Against Drunk Driving
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Class 3 (structure/process of criminal justice: most people in the ocdc are on remand, they are people who are waiting for their case to (cid:271)e resol(cid:448)ed. The reality is i(cid:374) our (cid:272)ri(cid:373)i(cid:374)al justi(cid:272)e syste(cid:373), the (cid:448)ast (cid:373)ajority of (cid:272)ases do(cid:374)"t go to trial. Their resolves are completed through another way, which is through a plea bargain (rather than going to trial): there are programs to help the families and the people in the prisons, such as. Cpep and moms: something that we have argued for is aid for the people who cannot afford bail. The provincial government is saying that they are going to build a bigger prison. How do we react, and how does this change over time, and also how it varies between countries. If you look in canada, for our purposes, the imprisonment rate is 120/100,000 of the population. We have standardized the rate per 100,000 in order to make the rate comparable between countries.
