SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Due Process, W. M. Keck Observatory, Liberal Democracy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3750
• Professor: Patrick Parnaby

Document Summary

Soc3730 week 2: history & cases in court (statistics) Protection protection of law-abiding persons against criminals; difference between criminals and non-criminals. Deterrence deter crime and lower crime as much as possible. Punishment deterring crime through punishment; preference for punishment under this model is prison. Justice getting criminals off the street and do this quick as possible, get people in and out of prisons. Speed quick, final: dealing with this quickly is a deterrent for people not to commit crimes in the future. Fact finding factual guilty; less evidence is required, illegally obtained evidence to get criminals off the street because that"s the main priority. If we have to break laws in order to get criminals off the street, it"s justified. If there is a conflict, protecting society is favoured. Decisions everyone is treated the same as they go through the system. Challenges a few errors; we don"t want many challenges because it makes the system insufficient.