Getting Away With Murder: The Canadian Criminal Justice System - Couverture souple

Paciocco, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 155221043X ISBN 13 : 9781552210437

Editeur : Irwin Law Inc, 1999

Synopsis

Runner-up for the 2000 Donner Prize
Shortlisted for the 2000 Walter Owen Book Prize

Since Cain killed Abel, the crime of murder has fascinated humans. So, too, do murder trials. They enable us to be voyeurs, peering from a safe distance into the dark recesses of the human capacity for evil and deadly impulse, and allowing us to bear witness to the ceremonial punishment of wrongdoers.

If the process of fatal crime and punishment fascinates, the Canadian criminal justice system infuriates, with its technicalities, its habit of coddling offenders, its abuse of victims, its inane defences, and its parole system.

Using the docudrama of a crime of murder as a lead to each chapter, Getting Away with Murder: the Canadian Criminal Justice System unravels the mysteries of the criminal justice system, explaining how and why we sentence offenders and pointing out where we err, particularly with the parole system. It describes the reasons behind the system's technicalities and why some of the guilty receive their benefit. The book explores the inadequacies and excesses of criminal defences, and illustrates why the system is miserly when it comes to victims' rights. Suggesting that much of the loss of confidence in our criminal justice system is based on misunderstanding and inadequate information, the book provides information to fill in the gaps without becoming an apologia for the system.

Although entertaining--written with a sense of humour and a bit of irreverence--the book is a serious, hard hitting, and candid work by a law professor who has acted both as prosecutor and defence counsel.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Honourable Justice David M Paciocco of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, professor emeritus, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, was formerly a justice of the Ontario Court of Justice. While a professor, he served as a prosecutor over a period of several years before engaging in a specialized criminal defence practice. His academic writings have been relied upon, on numerous occasions, by courts in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, and by the Privy Council.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Irwin Law Inc
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 155221043X
• ISBN 13: 9781552210437
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 417
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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