SOC 3730 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Miscarriage Of Justice, Due Process, English Civil War
19 Jan 2017
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Protection: reduce crime main priority, protection of law abiding persons, get tough on crime approach, against criminals, difference between criminals and non criminals. Punishment: deter crime one of the goals, lower crime as much as possible, harsher punishment, acts as a deterrent. Justice: seen as getting criminals off the street as quickly as possible, get in and out asap. Important part of the system: quick and final, quickly means more deterrence and for people to not commit crimes in the future, few if any errors in the system. Punishment: acts as a deterrent, mandatory sentences essentially make people not commit crimes. If police identify you as being responsible you must be responsible for the crime: guilty until proven innocent. Officials: do(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ake (cid:373)istakes, must have done something wrong, trust officials because they want to protect us. Errors: few or no errors that occur.
