SOCI-225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Informal Sector, Formal System, Network Layer
10 Jan 2021
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The informal organization of the canadian criminal justice system. An important aspect of this approach is its attention to the ways in which the organizational and institutional cultures found within criminal justice agencies can affect the services provided to offenders. A variety of approaches have been forwarded that attempt to explain the operations of the informal system of criminal justice. Instead, most defendants receive a form of "bargain justice," where the accused is encouraged to plead guilty in return for a reduced sentence or the dropping of a number of charges. The courtrooms themselves have an air of "assembly-line justice"; defendants line up to enter the courtroom, only to have their cases summarily dispatched. Most indicated they pleaded guilty simply because they wanted to "get the thing over with. " Most criminal cases in canada end up being heard in the provincial courts, which handle routine criminal cases.
