CC102 Lecture 1: Lecture 1
Document Summary
Lecture 1: syllabus + thinking about the criminal justice system. Objectives for today: syllabus and course requirements, questions about the syllabus, short lecture, an introduction to the criminal justice system. What is the criminal justice system (cjs: 3 major agencies, the police, the courts, corrections, purpose: maintain law and order, protect public from law breakers, these agencies come together to investigate, detect, prosecute, and punish. Responsibilities: the police, front line of crime control, report and investigate crime, the courts, the core of the criminal justice system, adversarial style, provincial v. federal courts, corrections, handles convicted o enders, philosophy: rehabilitation and deterrence. The actual amount of crime in society, not re ected in crime reports. How do we collect statistics: o cial statistics, recorded using the ucr uniform crime reporting survey, re ects the o cial crime rate, uno cial statistics, self report surveys, victimizaton surveys.
