CRMN 1000U Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Canada, Criminal Justice, Ford Focus
20 Nov 2018
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Crime is any behaviour that is prohibited by criminal code: social. Anything that violates social norms: social constructionist. Normative framework of criminal justice system: adversarial system of justice. Two parties looking to win a case: prosecutors two concerns, justice, successful prosecution. Advantages: division of actors and agencies, evidence, as much as possible, promotes legitimacy of the criminal justice system. Disadvantages: efficiency over procedural justice, length of trials, exclusion of relevant evidence. How does the justice system ensure decisions are equal: substantive justice relates to accuracy of the outcome, procedural justice relates to fairness of the process. Rule of law (cid:862)se(cid:374)se of orderli(cid:374)ess, su(cid:271)je(cid:272)tio(cid:374) to k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:374) legal rules a(cid:374)d executive accountability basic elements: scope of law. No privileged exemptions, equality before law: character of law. Notion of legal equality section 15 of charter. Without this questioning of the rule of law happens. With this perceptions of fairness and is equal.
