CRM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Youth Criminal Justice Act, Canada Evidence Act, Sexual Assault
25 Jan 2017
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No longer mandatory, one cannot be jailed for not doing it threatening. Mandatory longform delivers a lot of important data and they need it in order to deliver services to give services properly and measure efficiency. 9. 5 billion to build more prisons bc there"s a lot of unreported crime. Two reasons for crime statistics in media: media uses statistics in order to construct itself as credible gives credibility and legitimacy, to construct crime as a problem and one that is in need of an urgent solution. Two main kinds of data (basis for knowledge open for observation): Official stats- collected by police, courts, corrections. Can be verified, observed, tested, it is reliable. There is a difference between opinion, fact and knowledge. Public opinion is an important cj issue. In order to make knowledge we must organize facts (information) 2 value systems (competing ways -- but not conflicting-- in understand how the legal system operates)
