Canadian Criminal Justice System

Your submission should be in essay form and be NO LESS than 300 words per question.

Assignment One

Please summarize this case of Regina vs. KHAWAJA (follow the link below).

Do you think a sentence of just over 10 years for KHAWAJA served as a specific or or general deterrent?

Why do you suppose the Ontario Court of Appeal reversed the lower courts decision on sentencing in December 2010 and sentenced KHAWAJA to life in prison?

  http://www.ontariocourts.on.ca/decisions/2010/december/2010ONCA0862.pdf 

  http://www.lawconnection.ca/content/sentencing-theory-backgrounder 

Assignment Two
Section 8 and 24(2) – Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Can you provide examples where even though the state has violated the rights of an individual with regard to obtaining/seizing evidence the evidence is still admitted in proceedings against that person? 

Do you think that once evidence is obtained by infringing someone’s rights it is automatically excluded NO MATTER WHAT?

 
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Assignment Three
Building More Jails

This quote is from the article, Doing the crime and doing the time  from the web resource for this week.   http://www.cbc.ca/canadavotes2006/realitycheck/crimetime.html

Constructing new jails just for the 6,000 inmates who would have previously been out under house arrest would cost Canadian taxpayers about $400 million. Would that investment make our communities safer? Most of the evidence indicates that the answer to that question is no.

What are your thoughts on this, do you agree or disagree, why?

Assignment Four

Specifically, we will be looking at the Justice Model, the Deterrence Model, and the Selective Incapacitation Model.

Of the models discussed this week, which one(s) do you see as being closest to our present system and why?

Which model would you personally like to see in place today for our current system?

  http://www.lawconnection.ca/content/sentencing-theory-backgrounder