SOC 3730 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Law French, English Civil War, Civil Procedure
4 Apr 2016
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Both due process and crime control used in canada. Protecion of law-abiding ciizens and the community from those who commit crime: understanding that criminals are diferent than non-criminals. Trying to deter people before they commit a crime. Punishment: harsher punishments, longer punishments o o. If you break the law, there will be punishment. Resembles assembly line: get as many people in and out as quickly as possible. Looking for factual guilt instead of legal guilt. It"s okay if evidence is obtained illegally as long as we catch the bad guy. #1 priority, remove criminals from street and protect ciizens from them. Assumpion is you are guilty because you came into the system. Oicials: don"t make mistakes, know what"s right. Legal rights get in the way, disrupt the low of inding people guilty and punishing them o. If there"s a conlict, they will choose the side that protects society.
