SOCI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Risk Society, Medicalization, Official Statistics

• School: UBC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 102
• Professor: Catherine Corrigall- Brown

Document Summary

The canadian criminal justice system compromises of three components police, courts and corrections system the organization of the court system in canada. 4 basic levels: local level provincial courts. Handle the great majority of cases that come into the system most criminal offences, family law matters, young offenders m traffic violations: provincial and territorial superior courts. More serious crimes, divorce: federal court of appeal, supreme court of canada. Federal government has exclusive authority over the procedures in the criminal court. Complex web of institutions, organizations, professional and voluntary associations. It is a system of criminal and law enforcement behaviors and organizations that all the major theories discussed. Negative sanctions: disapproval of social deviance ranges from frowns and gossip to breaking folkways to imprisonment. Degradation ceremonies: formal attempts to mark an individual with the status of an outsider. Steps are taken to strip the individual of his or her identity as a group member.