SOCI-225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Municipal Police, Equal Protection Clause
8 Jan 2021
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Almost everyone would agree that people who experience harm or suffer an injury at the hands of someone who has been charged with a criminal offence deserve justice. And most would support the idea that people who have allegedly broken the law also deserve justice while they are investigated and tried in a court of law, as they are presumed to be innocent. That is, people deserve justice by being treated equally, having the same rights, privileges, and opportunities. Some people would argue that once a person is convicted of a crime, they don"t deserve the same extent of justice as law-abiding citizens. When someone is convicted of a crime they enter into the correctional system, and here, too, they should receive justice. The police, courts, and corrections are the major elements of what most people think of as the criminal justice system.
