SOC 3730 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Indictable Offence, Provincial Superior, Summary Offence
16 Apr 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Soc 3730: used to shape peoples thoughts about courts, not many people have experience in courts so they only learn about it through movies/tv shows. Trials: comprise about 10% of all cases that go past police (very few) Use of pleas: caseloads are diminished because of these, usually gets a guilty plea so there is no need for trial. Funcion of court: dependent on which criminal jusice model it is, crime control or due process, depends on the case for which model is used. Objecive measures: determined which courts are major courts vs minor courts, for criminal courts it is based on punishment / seriousness of the case, summary or indictable. Summary ofence cases, provincial statues, traic/family law, municipal/provincial by la. Less complicated, very simple cases: higher courts. Jurisdicion: one court that acts as superior and provincial court (since it is so small) Judge: one judge that controls the territory. Court type (on circuit: travels to the person.
