CC211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Liberal Democracy, Social Inequality, Self-Determination
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Criminal justice system: crime: detection/ trial/ punishment. Cjs components: police: detection of crime police detect criminals (beginning point of cjs). Crime: violation of law: enforcement of law, they must define who has violated the law. Defined by the ccc in addition to another act. When all of these happen, criminal justice has taken place!!! Sample test question: what are the components of criminal justice system, police, supreme court, psychiatrie hospitals, police, criminal courts, correctional measures, criminal courts, provincial governments, lawyers, both a and b, both a and c. Two fundamental meanings of justice: criminal justice, punishment is a just retaliation for harm. We want people who harm other people to be punished: psychology of cj: we want retaliation. We want revenge: we cannot take justice into our hands, it would be chaos, revenge (vengeance) two forms of revenge, unrestricted return the harm plus more. Oldest type of revenge: restricted: lex talions (law of retaliation) latin/ roman word.
