[LAWS 2301] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (64 pages long)

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Chapter 1: criminal law and the government regulation in perspective. Crime and the criminal law system, c. mitchell. There are 3 perspectives; the legal, ethical, and contractual. A crime is any act prohibited or punishable by law or, more specifically, is any form of human behaviour designated by lawmakers as criminal and subject to penal sanctions" (parker, 1987). No matter how harmful or immoral an activity might be, it is not a crime unless lawmakers so designate. There are municipal, provincial, and federal lawmakers. Federal legislators have authority to create criminal laws and many of those are contained in the criminal code. Example of a federally created crime is s. 163 of the code: Everyone commits an offence who makes, prints, publishes, distributes, sells or has in possession for the purpose of publication, distribution, or circulation, a crime comic. A psychiatrist named federic wertham launched the first public campaign against crime comics.

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