PUB2 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Restorative Justice, Mental Disorder, Scientific Method

• School: McGill University
• Department: Public Law 2
• Course: PUB2 111
• Professor: Maxime Hebrard

Document Summary

Something: against the law, stigmatised, deviant behaviour. More than that, it is associated with morally wrong behaviour, and behaviour sufficiently wrong that it is a threat to public security, it causes social harm and is worthy of stigma. An act fundamentally wrong or wrong enough that it should result in punishment, and in the western world, punishment usually means deprivation of liberty. Conversely, restorative justice differs from punitive justice by: focusing on healing the people that have been affected as well as the re- insertion of the accused. It"s about restoring relations that have been harmed as a result of crime. This means that the notion of criminality doesn"t have to result in punishment, but that is what our system is built around. There are two (necessary) elements at the core of true crimes: actus reus, the guilty act, mens rea, the guilty mind. The overwhelming majority of crimes involve an actus reus, an act.