CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Actus Reus, Mens Rea

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: James Williams

Document Summary

Canadian crime rate has not rising, peak was 1991. since then declining. Property offences are main type of crime in canada. Most violent crimes are committed by someone you know. Toronto not highest rate in canada, st john new brunswick. Street crime is less serious than corprote crime because of economic cost\ Canada has one of the strictest youth justice systems in the world parol exist for adults but just started for teens, teens serving full sentence. Ycga has been diverting kids away from the jail system, significant decline for canada. Crime is actually comon, simple crimes that were not caught. Famous crimes violent crime- media shows rare crimes comon crimes more like counter fitting money, drug trafficking. Very complex definition of crime because of diversity of crime, situational. Legal approach of deffinaition of crime- an act or a failure to act which violates the criminal law. Tapan 1947 : intentional act aginst the criminal law.