PPAS 4070 Study Guide - Final Guide: Victimisation, Heteronormativity, Marital Rape

• School: York University
• Department: Public Policy and Administration Studies
• Course: PPAS 4070
• Professor: Kirk Atkinson

Document Summary

Intro: in western capitalist countries like canada and us the role of the judiciary is indispensable to the functioning and stability of the polite-economic and socio-legal order: first, define institutionally the judiciary. The courts are an integral, complex part of the justice system. In the democratic tradition, the courts are ideally above the law and not biased, rational, based on valid rules accepted as valid proofs in deciding a multiplicity of legal cases. In keeping with the principle of judicial independence and the rule of law, the working of the courts would seem to be free from outside interference. Ideally, judicial decision-making should take contradictions within the capitalist states into account. In 1982, multicultural policies were firmly entrenched in the charter of. Rights and freedoms, guaranteeing justice and fairness among others, equal protection and benefit of the law, and freedom from discrimination on the bases of gender, religion and racial or ethnic origin.