CRM 1300 Lecture 13: CRM 1300 - Lecture 13
8 Mar 2017
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The courts: criminal procedure, sentencing, and miscarriages of justice. The law: what the cjs applies and enforces. The criminal law is designed to protect society from actions or behaviours it considers harmful or potentially harmful to collective life. There are several different mechanisms through which the law is thought to work to achieve these aims - these are the logics of punishments: There are three discrete (sometimes overlapping) stages to criminal process: Cops are guided by crown prosecutors to ensure that they are obtaining evidence in a legal fashion. Crown prosecutors are meant to ensure the cops pursue more than one theory. Crown prosecutors will decide whether it is worth proceeding with a police matter in court. The police are responsible for gathering evidence leading up to the laying of charges in criminal investigations. The police do not work alone in this regard: they are in frequent contact with.
