LAWS 2301- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 26 pages long!)

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Law
• Course: LAWS 2301
• Professor: Jennifer Dalton

Document Summary

We will be looking at the main actors of the cjs; namely, the police, judges, lawyers, etc. One of the main institutions of the criminal justice system - how differing models of justice fit in the current role of prisons, and vice versa. Organizations like the john howard society have looked into things like the rights of inmates, and prison reform. The death penalty was abolished in canada in 1976. Restorative justice will pop up a few times throughout, but more towards the end of the course. Traditionally the crime control model: crime and punishment model. Last week"s video (elders at csc - bringing the grandchildren home): Highlights restorative justice, prisons, different methods of dealing with offenders, and indigenous issues. How indigenous rights have played an important part in our assessment of criminal justice in canada. Placing indigenous elders in correctional facilities can help indigenous inmates to restore themselves, and make right the crimes which they"ve committed.