CRIM 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Arbitrary Arrest And Detention, Exclusionary Rule
15 Mar 2016
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Vicims and witnesses: recognize trauma vulnerable vicims can tesify w/out facing accused in court. Protecion from illegal searches, detenion and abusive interrogaion. Sentencing: protecion from arbitrary detenion and cruel and unusual punishment. Number of criminal incidents reported to police divided by populaion (why a raio?) Collected by police, inluenced by reporing pracices, compiled by staisics canada (crime severity index?) Each ofence type has its own weight. (dark igure of crime?) Large discrepancy between actual crime and reported crime. Severity of police reported crime decreasing: smaller proporion of 15-24 year olds, technology and crime prevenion, efecive policing. Over-representaion of aboriginal people in all stages of cjs. Crime rates in north -5x higher than overall rates for canada. Prison data: relects oicial decisions not actual crime paterns. Ucr aggregate data (number of incidents reported to police, number of actual ofences, number of ofences cleared, number of sex of adults/youth charged) Ucr2 incident based (above plus, details re: vicims/accused/circumstances of incident)
