CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bow Street Runners
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Media in crime in canada, how the media is our primary source of crime news is the police. Police spokesperson gives bare bone facts: keeps information to a minimal. Very rare to hear from the victim or the full truth. Sometimes people see something but wont say anything because they think they will be in trouble, or be incriminating and he would be paid for every person he jailed. Kings law then changed to common law: the law of the persons. Magna carta: document that lays it out. The police force back then would have been the army. Locally we had sheriffs, sheriffs purchase their job, pay a fee to be a sheriff, (cid:498)the king"s law(cid:499) the laws of the land enforced by the army. Now, common laws wouldn"t just apply to just the common person, it would. The king and queen were the only ones with the power to execute someone.
