Chapter 6
Identify three purposes of criminal law.
What is the protection of people and property? What is maintaining order? What is preserving standards of human decency?
What is B-DIF?
What is border integrity, drugs and organized crime, international policing, and financial crime?
What is a summary conviction?
What is a crime less serious and carries a lighter penalty?
What is the name of our Superior Court?
What is the Superior Court of Justice?
What is self-defence?
What is the defence of reasonable force to defend against an attack?
What is the definition of criminal law?
What is the body of laws that prohibit and punish acts that injure people, property and society as a whole?
What is Aboriginal Police?
What are individuals who police Indigenous land?
What is an indictable conviction?
What is a serious crime that carries a heavier penalty?
How many jury members?
What are 12 people?
What is battered women syndrome?
What is why a woman may develop a learned helplessness that causes her to believe she deserves the abuse and that she can't get away from it.
What is intent?
What is a state of mind in which someone desires to carry out a wrongful action, knows what the results will be, and is reckless regarding the consequences?
What is the area in which the crime was committed?
What is a free space?
What are 300 points?
What is subpoena?
What is a court order requiring the witness to appear in court on a certain date to give evidence?
What is a provocation?
What is when a person is considered to have committed a criminal act partly because of a preceding set of events that might cause a reasonable person to lose self-control.
What is the R. v. S.D.D. case?
What is a sixteen-year-old was drinking beer with friends and choose to conceal a bag of chips? She lit the bag on fire, however, did not know it began to spread? This cost $110 000 in damage?
What is the contamination of a search?
What is the loss, destruction, or alteration of physical evidence?
What are penalties for summary conviction?
What is limited to fines of $2 000 or 6 months in prison?
What is a bailiff?
What is the court official who assists the sheriff?
What is the number of incarcerated individuals in Canada? (Roughly)
What are 100 incarcerated individuals?
What is a perpetrator?
What is the person who actually commits the crime?
Briefly explain why the police keep a log of activities at a crime scene?
What is the use of logs to help police when they testify in the trial?
What court hears appeals?
What is the Superior Court of the Province?
What is voir dire?
What is a mini-trial in which jurors are excluded while the admissibility of evidence is discussed?
What is the Royal Prerogative of Mercy?
What is a release or sentence reduction granted by the Queen under the authority of an Act of Parliament?