LWSO 203 Lecture Notes - Alcohol By Volume, Suspended Sentence, Life Imprisonment
12 Mar 2013
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Crime as a public wrong - for society as a whole on behalf of society as a whole (crown prosecutors don"t represent the victims of the crime, they represent the public) Punishment inflicted by the group against a group member. Retribution (eye for an eye, you need to be punished for what you did), pain comes in all types of ways (restricting, fines) The courts hope those consequences will prevent crime in the future (punishing as a way of teaching a lesson) utilitarian. The principles of sentencing = 1) proportionate to the gravity of the offence: you steal (not a serious offence) you don"t put them in jail. The sentence needs to be proportionate to the offence. Victims of crime submit a letter telling the court how the crime infected their life and they can read that in court. Canada can"t deport people back to countries who have the death penalty: possible justifications:
