SOCI 2450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mens Rea
21 Apr 2018
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What is criminology: the making of law, the breaking of law, and the societal reaction to the breaking of law, a development of a body of general and verified principles of knowledge regarding the process of crime. What is a crime: an act that violates the criminal code of canada. Politicality: you cannot have a law that does not involve politics. Specificity: differentiates between criminal law and civil law. Uniformity: the laws are applied uniformly to all classes of people. Penal sanction: an offence is carried by a punishment by state, everything crime in the criminal code has a punishment. You may have to pay for the damage done to the other individual (suing) You can win a case even if you are not convicted in criminally. The body of laws, offences, and their punishments (criminal code of canada. Innocent until proven guilty beyond considerable doubt. The general principles of the criminal law by jerome hall.
