LAWS 3306 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Herbert Annesley Packer, Crown Attorney, Legal Aid
14 Apr 2018
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Lecture 1: midterm worth 40, final worth 60% Criminal process: activities and actors that respond to crime. Inverted triangle: represents all criminal matters in our justice system top corners where you enter criminal justice system. As it funnels down, things like plea bargains come along the way. Need to take into account non reported crime (significant amount), people who do not want to report crimes against them or enter justice system: expenditures: (proper triangle, from bottom up) Correctional system: penetentaries, jails, and the actors within these facilities. Legal aid for individuals who cant afford lawyers. 1. 5% of gdp budget on criminal justice and rising. Herbert packer: tries to understand why our criminal state is the way it is. These are not static, they are changing all the time. The start of the criminal process is factual guilt (placed under arrest) on reasonable and probable grounds.
