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Getting Away with Murder
The Canadian Criminal Justice System
Irwin Law
Published: 01/02/1999
417 pages (PB)
9 x 6
155221043X
$24.95
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Getting Away with Murder
The Canadian Criminal Justice System
David Paciocco
If 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 unravels the mysteries of the criminal justice system, explaining how and why we sentence offenders and pointing out where we err. Entertaining, yet hard hitting.
Subjects: Law, Sociology
AWARDS FOR Getting Away with Murder:
2nd Prize Winner, The Donner Prize 1999/00
Table of Contents:
Preface FAITH AND JUSTICE
CHAPTER 1: The Credibility Crisis CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
CHAPTER 2: In Defence of the Need to Punish
CHAPTER 3: Conditional Justice
CHAPTER 4: The Injustice of Parole GETTING OFF ON TECHNICALITIES: THE RULE OF LAW
CHAPTER 5: Defining Crime
CHAPTER 6: Getting Off on Technicalities PROVING GUILT AND MAINTAINING INNOCENCE
CHAPTER 7: The Specific Allegation
CHAPTER 8: Presumed Innocent
CHAPTER 9: Closing Our Eyes to Find the Truth
CHAPTER 10: Abandoning the Search for the Truth JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE
CHAPTER 11: Forgiving Human Weakness
CHAPTER 12: Kill or Be Killed: The Law of Self-Defence
CHAPTER 13: Losing Control: Provocation and Excusing the Inexcusable
CHAPTER 14: The Abuse Excuse: "Psychobabble" and the Protection of Basic Values
CHAPTER 15: Disordered Minds: Insanity, Automatism, and Intoxication THE ROLE OF THE VICTIM
CHAPTER 16: The Sad Truth About Victims' Rights CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 17: Responding to the Credibility Crisis Notes
Course Adoptions:
Criminology, Justice Studies
Accessible and entertaining, yet serious and hard-hitting examination of the Canadian criminal justice system.
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