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Human Rights
Courts
Criminal Code
Prisons
Rehabilitation vs. Retribution
100
Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior
What is racism?
100
Has original jurisdiction in all cases, civil and criminal, arising in British Columbia.
What is the Supreme Court of British Columbia?
100
A law that codifies most criminal offences and procedures in Canada.
What is the Criminal Code of Canada?
100
This prison in Norway is considered the most humane prison in the world
What is the Halden prison?
100
The action of restoring someone to health or normal life through training and therapy after imprisonment, addiction, or illness.
What is rehabilitation?
200
This group is widely known on social media and is an advocate for Black people
What is Black Lives Matter?
200
These people use stenographic machines, voice writing, or electronic and audio equipment to transcribe speech into written word.
What is a court reporter?
200
Youth age 12-17 can be charged with offences under the Criminal Code. But if the youth is given an adult custody sentence they will be sent here until the age of 18.
What is a youth facility?
200
This term is defined in the Criminal Code as serious personal injury offences, including specific sexual assault offences or, alternatively, a particular offence that was essentially violent and carries a potential maximum of 10+ years.
What is the dangerous offender status?
200
Punishment inflicted on somebody as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act.
What is retribution?
300
Racism is more prominent towards this group of people in Canada more than any other group of people
What are First Nations people?
300
These people provide for the safety and security of the courts of British Columbia and the participants in the judicial system
What is a sheriff?
300
The Criminal Code was first enacted in July 1892 after being a pet project of the Minister of Justice of the time, Sir John Sparrow David Thompson. It was based on this drafted code.
What is the Stephen Code?
300
This term is defined by a person posing a threat as an unrestricted presence in the community.
What is the long-term offender status?
300
This action can be used as a part of retribution in prisons after committing an action of defiance or physical violence.
What is solitary confinement?
400
This act continued from 1882 until 1968 towards Black people to 'get rid of them'
What is lynching?
400
These people maintain order within a court room and protect judges, jurors, and other court personnel.
What is a court bailiff?
400
These are made to the Code almost yearly to keep up with the technological, social, and economic changes in society.
What are amendments?
400
These places are where individuals are physically confined or incarcerated by a third party that is contracted by a government agency. Also called for-profit prisons.
What are private prisons?
400
This prison used a mix of rehabilitation and retribution to create a prison very unique to its area.
What is the Angola Prison?
500
Africans were seen as this, and it was a necessary view to justify the slave trade to white people
What is a savage?
500
In 1869 the "Supreme Court of the Mainland of BC" to distinguish it from the "The Supreme Court of Vancouver Island". These two courts merged to create...
What is the Supreme Court of British Columbia?
500
These are designed to respond to a growing attitude in society that the interests of victims of crime should have a more prominent place when an offender's sentence is decided.
What are new sentencing provisions?
500
These types of corrections are sanctions imposed on convicted adults or adjudicated juveniles that occur in a residential setting outside of a jail or prison.
What are community corrections?
500
Many believe these types of people belong in prison forever due to the crimes they commit, while others think rehabilitation would suffice more in this case.
What are sociopaths/psychopaths?