SOC 1500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, Ontario Provincial Police, Sûreté Du Québec

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

Law-and-order platform supports a strict criminal justice system; tough on crime. Deterrent theories that fear of harsh punishment is the most effective way to deter crime. Law-and-order remedies to crime do not reduce or prevent crime. Carried out at four levels: federal, provincial, municipal and first nations. Three provincial police forces: the ontario provincial police, the surete du quebec, and the royal newfoundland constabulary. No support as an effective way to reduce crime. Racial profiling: members of the police force systematically targeting members of racial groups on the basis of a perceived criminal proclivity of the whole group. Criminal division: hears all summary convictions in provincial courts and indictable offence. Trial division: hears more serious indictable offences such as murder in provincial courts. Supreme court of canada: hears federal cases on civil, criminal and constitutional matters and is the last court of appeal. Process whereby judges make reasonable decision on how to punish convicted criminals.