SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Crown Attorney, Public Intoxication, Reform School
24 Dec 2016
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The study of crime - defining crime and researching crime. E-mail: mdumas@uoguelph. ca (put course code/name in subject title) Criminal justice: believed that if you are found guilty you are punished. Dealing with people who break the law. When a police lays charges against a person, they believe that person has committed a crime. 3 main components to cjs - through the process. Police > court > sentence > prison. Through police investigation to determine a crime. Files sent to prosecutor (crown attorney) decides if you are released on recognizance, bail, or held for court date, where you plead guilty or not guilty. Not guilty: usually trial, prosecutor must determine. Innocence is never proven, court is about legal findings (not if they"re guilty or not guilty, only by what can be proven with legal means) If you are sent to prison, you go to federal or provincial. 2 years - 1 day = provincial. 2 year or more = federal prison.
