SOC209H5 Chapter Notes -Welfare Fraud, Juvenile Delinquency, Plea Bargain
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Karla homolka 12 year sentence for killing young women with adam bernado was released. Robert pickton 26 counts of murder of young girls, received 6 life sentences. Media plays a role in how we form opinions on crime. Wider forces shape the severity of punishment, judges decisions etc. Crime is a culpable action or omission prohibited by law and punished by the state formal definition: an act or omission is a crime because the law defines it that way. Crime causes harm, which interferes with happiness, freedom etc. Debate on whether sexual practices should be criminalized. In history some acts like bondage have been: no harm, is consensual. More a pattern of ideas or behaviours deemed as harmful and criminal. Canada first criminal code in 1892 based on the english one. Indian act criminalized aboriginal practices such as potlatch till 1951 amendment: residential schools with christian education, 1876 reserves set up and a register with gender discrimination.
