Criminal law & procedure : cases, context, critique / Jennie Abell, Elizabeth Sheehy.

CONTENT

DEFINITION OF CRIME
Problematizing the definition of crime
The contingency of the definition of crime
Challenges to the definition of crime

COLONIZATION AND THE IMPOSITION OF CRIMINAL LAW
Outlawing the potlatch and the sun dance
Early murder trials
Poisoning the land, etc

ABORIGINAL PEOPLE AND CRIMINAL LAW
A Presentation to the western workshop of the western judicial education center
Royal commission on the Donald Marshall,Jr. Prosecution diget of findings and recommendations, etc.

ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW
Case
Sexual Orientation
Racism
Miscarriages of Justice, etc.

SENTENCING
Issues in sentencing
The politics of sentencing
Corporate criminality, etc

PRISONS AND PAROLE
Punishment
Prison conditions
Racism in Prison, etc.

LAW AND ORDER
Law and order and the Canadian state
Democracy and Terror: October, etc

INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
Classification of offences
Summary conviction offences
Section 553 offences
Section 469 offences, etc.

POLICING
The role of the police
Police methods
Systemic bias in policing, etc.

SEARCH AND SEIZURE
Authorized by law
Law must be reasonable
Search must be reasonable, etc.

COMPELLING THE ACCUSED'S APPEARANCE IN COURT
Arrest
Detention

RIGHT TO COUNSEL
Right to counsel upon arrest or detention
Right to counsel at trial
Systemic barriers to access to counsel: section 15?

JUDICIAL INTERIM RELEASE
Report of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba
R.V.Hall
R.V.Li

POWERS OF PROSECUTION
Police powers
Crown attorneys
Private prosecutions
Contempt and Judicial Powers, etc

INDEX OF CASES

Includes bibliographical index of cases: p. 513-516