Gabrielle Turenne
University of Athabasca
INTRODUCTION TO
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Kelly Gorkoff
University of Winnipeg
ISBN 978-0-13-537306-4
, Contents
Chapter 1 Introducing the Canadian Criminal Justice System: An Overview
Chapter 2 Knowing and Thinking about Criminal Justice
Chapter 3 The History and Purpose of Policing in Canada: Techniques of
Social Order
Chapter 4 How do Police, Police? The Where, How, and What of Policing in
Canada
Chapter 5 Making Criminal Law
Chapter 6 Using Law: Policing and the Courts
Chapter 7 Philosophies of Punishment and Penality
Chapter 8 Judicial Decision-Making and Sentencing Patterns
Chapter 9 Incarceration in Canada
Chapter 10 Community Corrections and Conditional Release
Chapter 11 Youth and the Canadian Criminal Justice System
Chapter 12 Moving Forward: Selected Issues in Canadian Criminal Justice
, Chapter 1 – Introducing the Canadian Criminal Justice System: An Overview
TRUE/FALSE
1. Communities are integral when it comes to maintaining social order.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Skill: Recall
LO. 1.1 Identify and discuss the three main purposes of the Canadian criminal justice
system.
2. The maintenance of justice refers to a more ethical set of ideas in which the system
seeks a balance between punishment and freedom.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2
Skill: Recall
LO. 1.1 Identify and discuss the three main purposes of the Canadian criminal justice
system.
3. Liberal justice means that all arrest, detention, court process, and sentencing must take
into account the rights and freedoms granted to an offender.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2
Skill: Recall
LO. 1.1 Identify and discuss the three main purposes of the Canadian criminal justice
system.
4. Only the federal government has the power to create, amend, and repeal Canadian
criminal law.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2
Skill: Recall
LO. 1.2 Recognize which level of government is responsible for which part of the
criminal justice system.
5. The majority of regulatory law is written by elected officials.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 3
Skill: Recall
LO. 1.2 Recognize which level of government is responsible for which part of the
criminal justice system.