what is crime?

Question 1

top three majority of crimes committed in canada

Answer 1

(1) theft; (2) impaired driving; (3) failure to comply with order

Question 2

influences of rising crime rates

Answer 2

police practices (i.e. roadside checks) and enforcement (more likely to occur in poor neighbourhoods)

Question 3

overall top crime committed in canada

Answer 3

break-ins

Question 4

crime rates in rural cities

Answer 4

30% higher than cities; due to greater levels of reports (less deterrence in these areas)

Question 5

country with highest consistent incarceration rate in the world

Answer 5

the u.s.a.

Question 6

role of criminal law in society

Answer 6

reinforces social, political and economical structures (central to capitalism); law plays a central role in ideological domination

Question 7

form of law

Answer 7

class societies embodies the material interests of the ruling class in a universal form and thus prevent the law as embodiment of a whole society (i.e. separation of powers, interdependence of judiciary)

Question 8

function of law

Answer 8

the way law appears to work in capitalist societies mask and reinforces inequality (i.e. rule of law, law as ‘inherently rational’)

Question 9

domination

Answer 9

universal feature of class society; one or more classes subject to another class in a manner that perpetuates exploitation

Question 10

hegemony

Answer 10

spontaneous consent given by the great mass of the pop. to the general direction imposed on social life by the ruling class

Question 11

coercive domination

Answer 11

backs the law system; includes police, courts and correctional systems; applied to reinforce general societal conditions through crimes against: (1) property, (2) the person, and (3) public order

Question 12

ideological domination

Answer 12

activities whereby assent to preexisting order is produced; consists of two elements (1) differential ability of groups to create ideas and (2) consequences of these ideas for the maintenance of capitalist order

Question 13

the royal commission on the donald marshall, jr., prosecution

Answer 13

accuses the police, prosecutors, and judges of racism, incompetence and miscarriage of justice; serves as an indictment of the nova scotia CJS

Question 14

indigenous people in canada are more likely to be…

Answer 14

(1) victims of violence and (2) arrested, charged and held in remand, and sent to prison

Question 15

indigenous people sent to prison are…

Answer 15

(1) classified as higher risk in terms of employment, substance abuse and family supports
(2) over-represented in segregation and maximum security
(3) disproportionately involved in use of force interventions and prison self-injury
(4) released later in their sentence
(5) more likely to return to custody