CRIM 131 Introduction to the Criminal Justice System
3 Credits

This course provides an overview of the major agencies of the Canadian criminal justice system - the police, courts and corrections. We explore a number of issues, including: consensus and conflict models of law and the criminal justice system, the tension between due process rights and crime control, victims, criminal law, crime patterns, community-based corrections, young offenders, as well as aboriginal justice initiatives and restorative justice. A number of issues of contemporary concern will be examined, particularly as they relate to Northern and First Nations residents. These include police deviance/wrongdoing, racial profiling, murdered/missing Aboriginal women and girls, police oversight and accountability, access to justice, legal system oversight and accountability, wrongful convictions, mental health and the criminal justice system and criminal justice reform.

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