SOC 1500 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Canada, Criminal Justice, Homicide
12 Oct 2018
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SOC 1500
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
SOC 1500
SEPT 7
Why study crime and criminal justice?
• Real effects
o Health, safety, sense of well being
• Damage to central institution
o Family (primary agent of socialization), workplace, schools
• Policy
o Created out of response to crime
▪ New laws
▪ Societal need
Crime and Laws
• Rules about behaviour
o Formalized rules (laws)
• Public and private (civil)
• Laws: tools of promoting good behaviour
o Only when people know they will be enforced
▪ E.g. Speeding (when you know there is a speed trap)
o Loose effectiveness over time for not being enforced
What is Crime?
• a at of oissio that is prohiited y riial law
o Actus reus: act of doing something
o Mens rea: guilty intent
• E.g. a man shoots another man in the forest
• Commit an act
• Guilty intention of doing something
• Cannot have defense or justification for doing it
Has to violate a law
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SEPT 14
Criminology
• Scientific study of crime and criminal behaviour
o What are the causes of crime?
o What are the explanations for crime?
o How does the public perceive crime, the laws, offenders?
• Criminal justice
o Study of social control and agencies involved with those suspected or charged with
criminal offences
▪ How are laws formed and applied?
▪ Who makes decisions within system?
▪ How do different systems operate?
What is the criminal justice system?
• Courts
o Lawyers
o Judges
o Other court personnel
• Corrections
o Correctional officers
o Probation officers
o Social workers
• Police
o Contract police
o RCMP
o Victim services
Costs
• Costs of CJS escalating
o More individuals incarcerated
• Cost of housing male inmate in max: $100,000/year
o Female is higher
• The ore we crack dow o crie the more it costs
• Push to reduce adatory iiu seteces
How the court system works
• Inquisitorial
o Court conducts trial
o Court determines facts
o Court seeks to determine truth
• Adversarial (CANADA)
o Two parties each try to win case
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Document Summary
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