SOSC 1375 Lecture Notes - Moral Panic, Determinative, Child Abuse
20 Nov 2013
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Law and society: all societies have laws. Can be unwritten: laws grow from customs, social behavior and norms. Emerging from moral panic and societal issues. Law can be regressive in response to fear: law draws a boundary of acceptable and not acceptable. Set of rules, and process through which those rules are enforced. The courts in canada: 1996: canadian criminal code amended (sec. Specifically instructs judges to look for alternatives in imprisonment for aboriginal people (to soften the sentence) Swedish jails give massages and create better people (less criminal) Criminal networking: sample case: gladue (1999) Though the boyfriend was cheating with the sister. Got drunk, stabbed the boyfriend twice, died. No previous convictions minor one for drinking and driving. Courts have to decide what to do. Aboriginal women have a high level of re-offending. We should give her a different process than other canadian women.
