CRIM 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Restorative Justice, Victims Family
Document Summary
Public law - criminal law (crown), constitutional law, taxation law and administrative law. Civil law (private law) - resolution of disputes between public citizens, contracts, torts, inheritance, divorce, custody, property ownership (suing someone, divorce, anything on judge. Criminal law (criminal cases can go to civil) Outlines the possible criminal defences for crimes (basic guilty, not guilty) Social control ( it outlines appropriate behaviour, consequences if you do something wrong, knowledge that something is illegal) Order maintenance (to maintain a order in society) Protect of interest groups ( government institutions and law biding people as a whole) Male in se offences (murder, sexual assault, bad offences) vs mala prohibit offences (small crimes) An act or omission prohibited by criminal law. 2 components (actus reues - commission of act, mens rea - mental intent to commit act) You can have intent to commit a crime but it may not go through or be completed. Challenges to the criminal justice system: part 1.