Sociology 2260A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Control, Procedural Justice, Adversarial System
26 Feb 2015
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What is social control: social control is commonly used to refer to the various types of organized reaction to behaviour viewed as problematic, used to regulate crime. Operations of canada"s criminal justice system (cjs: a vast network of organizations and facilities charged with the investigation, detection, prosecution, and punishment of offenders, key agencies within cjs are police, courts, and correctional system. What is criminal justice: our current cjs model is based off a justice model, guilt, innocence, and sentence must be determined fairly; punishment should for the crime; like cases should be treated alike. Individual: discrimination by a member of cjs against the members of certain groups: driving while black, pulls over people for speeding, no ticket to female but ticket to male. What is substantive justice: refers to the accuracy or correctness of the outcome of a case, accuracy of sentence, fits the crime, this tends to be relatively easy to prove.
