SOC307H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Disintegration, Conditional Sentence, Prison Overcrowding
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Kids understand life & themselves in terms of shopping. Ethically: treat others as obstacles, ignores consequences. Consumer society cannot give a meaning/goal to individuals" lives. Youth poverty has resulted in numerous youth gangs. Constitution gives federal government exclusive right to legislate criminal law. Provinces: have exclusive control over civil law. Have jurisdiction over administration of justice in their area. Protects an individual"s autonomy and personal legal rights from action of the government. There are three types of protection within the section 7. Balance it with greater good of society. 3) overbreadth: means for achieving purposes must be reasonable. 4) mens rea: crimes involving prison sentences must have a mens rea (guilty mind) element. 5) shocks the conscience: no extraditions where shocking punishments. 6) right to silence: no policy trickery; silence does not mean guilt. 8) right to know the case & defense. Under contract to the 3 territories and provinces. A-corrections as a subsystem of the criminal justice system.
