SOC209H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Reverse Onus, Tunnel Vision, Eyewitness Identification
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Show cause: demonstrate reason for detention state has to prove that offender has to be in jail/custody. Least restrictive option start with least restrictive, work your way up to most restrictive. Factors (on decision of remand or bail: priors, current charges, previous failure to appear. Detention: attendance (probability of coming to trial), recidivism, no bail arrangements. Role of the victim: private to public affair, state represents community (state controls justice, offender injures society, exclusion of victims - victim has no role, state takes control crown doesn"t represent victim. Current role victim raw material- provide evidence to crown (witness) symbolic role power in not reporting crime peripheral. Victim involvement: financial reparation (force offender to pay back victim, victim impact statements. Informing victims: victim advocates - having a lawyer to represent victim victim bill of rights - shifting power towards victim. Purposes and principles: accountability, denunciation, deterrence, reparation - reparing harm that was caused, rehabilitation, accountability, protection.
