LS227 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: White-Collar Crime, Indian Act
2 Dec 2016
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How rules and laws impact our lives. Green criminology, terrorism studies and surveillance studies. Criminology - the process of making laws, breaking laws and reacting to the breaking of laws. The development of a body of general veri ed principles and of other types of knowledge regarding this process of law, crime and treatment. Media reports of crime are often inaccurate. Criminal law is under federal jurisdiction, but the justice system is under provincial powers. Rcmp is the federal police and a province will usually have their own police force (exp. If a province doesn"t have their own police force, they may rely on the rcmp. Higher courts and some criminal trials are federal jurisdiction. Norms - established rules of behaviour or standards of conduct. Most norms have been internalized and we aren"t even conscious that we are following them.
