CRM 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Actus Reus, Edwin Sutherland, Institutionalized Discrimination

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 100
• Professor: Tsasha Awong

Document Summary

The criminal justice in canada consists of three major agencies: the police, the courts, and the correctional system. Federal conservative party has tried to revise various sections of the criminal code. + introduce new laws for the express purpose of tackling crime and making communities safer . Changes include increasing the number of mandatory minimum penalty laws. Some community supervision and treatment programs reduced recidivism rates for substance abusers and nonviolent offenders. Key factors that impact on reducing the crime rate: Cultural patterns of a society is shaped by ways of thinking, feeling, and acting. Society often develops a system to warn its disapproval for ones that break with approved ways of thinking and action. Social control: various types of reactions to behavior viewed as problematic. To control crimes, we have to establish a system of criminal justice enabling various institutions of social control to investigate, deter, prosecute and punish.