Televised Courtrooms In Canada

There are higher courts assuring that the judges follow the law at all times. The Canadian Charter of rights gives us our rights and freedoms so people will have their rights protected while in court. A part of democracy is everyone having their rights and this advantage of an independent justice system ensures citizens that they will have them. The rights of the people need to be protected and with higher courts ensuring that they are creating an equal and secure justice system. People will not be afraid to go to court or unsure if their rights apply during the trial. The promise of rights and freedoms is not a threat to democracy, especially if it is helpful and provides for each citizen across Canada. In fact, it also forces judges to be under a law since they are people too. They are not the law, they just enforce it and this rule guarantees that a judge cannot just do whatever they feel like doing and give out unfair sentences or wrong decisions. This provides Canada with a democracy and no threat towards

Throughout crime in Australia, a noticeable increase in crime occurred between the 1970’s to the 1990’s but has declined to a stable rate of crime which is similar trend in America. However, crime itself is often complex to define due to the variety of crime. Therefore, it is difficult to accurately measure crime and if crime cannot be measured efficiently and it proposes concerns of whether crime in Australia is stable or not. Although Australia’s system of collecting crime data is striving to be as accurate as possible, the media will often manipulate the data which misleads the Australian public of crime stability. Inclusively, through gaining an understanding of defining crime, accurately measuring data and comparing Australia’s crime data

Jury nullification should continue to be recognized as a part of the Canadian justice system. The power of the juries should stay the same crucially because in some cases the defendant may actually have a reason to not be guilty even though they may be guilty for the crime that they have committed. Authors, Neil Brooks and Anthony Doob discuss about juries and the strengths and weaknesses about them and jury nullification. Chief Justice Fraser of the Alberta Court of Appeal discusses about Krieger 's Appeal and the strengths of jury nullification and how the jury following their conscience is sometimes better than following the “rule of law”. Paul Butler suggests that the law should expand jury nullification by allowing jurors who are the same race as the defendant who is guilty be free which I believe should not be added in the criminal justice system because of the many negative outcomes it may cause in society. Jury nullification is when a jury that takes part in a case believes that the defendant is not guilty even though he/she is guilty for the crime that they have caused by using their conscience instead of considering the facts that they have been presented by the law and that follow the rule of law. Jury nullification should continued to be recognized and the power of juries should be limited because of many reasons. Although jury nullification may be a positive factor to a defendant and to society as well, sometimes it won 't be if the power of juries stays the

A Florida woman by the name Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez was given to the authority’s that this woman had abducted her child, Which Casey was lying. Casey had ruined this women reputation by lying on her and a lawsuit would be filed. In December of 2008 a Utility worker found Skeletal remains in a wooded area near the Anthony home. The remains were announced public on every news channel and that the remains were Caylee Anthony. Prosecutors went to announce that they will seek the death penalty for Casey. Is there

It is commonly known that crime in Canada has gone down over the last few years, and that this is or has been advertised in just about every online news outlet in Canada. Overall, this is great! However, we still see and hear about many stories based around crime daily in the news, and this is not surprising. What is though, is that the crime reported in the news is typically violent crime, regardless of the fact that crime statistics typically indicate that only about 10 percent of crimes committed in Canada are actually violent. Stats Canada (2014) indicates that there are approximately 340,000 violent crime violations (e.g. homicide, sexual assault, robbery) per year. This may sound like a lot, and it is! But not when you consider that there is approximately 1,00,000 property crime violations (e.g. break and enter; theft over 5,000) and 582,000 other crime violations (e.g. administration of justice violations, impaired driving, drug violations) per year. It is argued that the media disproportionately reports violent crime because is more serious and creates a better news story, which in turn gains more views for the media. Not many people would be intrigued hearing about how many parking violations occurred that day or how many petty thefts occurred. Non-violent crime is unintentionally, and sometimes

The subject of this book dealt with the idea of how this discrepancy between the reality of crime, the public’s perception, and government expenditures has come to pass. Also what are its consequences for the quality of life in the United States? The misperception between what the public believes and what politicians tell us was created because politicians search for publicly approved issues, local law enforcement agencies support the uniform crime report (UCR) findings, the media is always looking for sensational news. “ the police and the FBI are joined by the media in the never-ending search for sensational topics that will titillate and exacerbate the fears and anxieties of the viewing public and, not coincidentally, increase the number

The crime rate in Canada has been in a general decline since 1991 and recent statistics show that of those crimes reported, 48% were property related and 12.6% were violent crime. Ironically, the three most northern territories with the least population have higher per capita crime rates that any province. Statistics from the Canadian Centre of Justice, crime was, in fact, the lowest since 1972. This general trend is positive, but there remains an increase in certain crimes since 2010 including homicide (7% increase), criminal harassment (1% increase), sexual crimes against children (3% increase), child pornography (40% increase), and impaired driving (2% increase) (Canada's Crime Rate, 2012).

They mean that the news media exaggerates things, they pick and choose what they report, and they underestimate other crimes because they are afraid they will not get good ratings. The media will empathize street crime more than white collar crime because they think the majority of the people would rather hear about blue-collar crimes Barcan, 21). Many people in the media want to further their careers, and maybe even be able to keep their job, so they do what they feel they have to do.The media often decides to promote a crime wave to bring in more money for their tv station or company. They do this by focusing on a particular area and they give all their attention to that location. They try their best to group crimes in that area together,

The information that is put out through the mass media is filtered, so it not only has pieces missing, it also has bias reporting’s. Obviously, they want you to believe what they believe, so they are going to brainwash you into thinking that. When it comes to crime, we examine it the exact same way the media does. That’s the goal. The media has shaped our perception on crime and criminals, to the point where we do not bother asking ourselves, why is this wrong? Why are people being sent to prison? Why are there some people who are getting harsher penalties for trivial crimes? It is not completely our fault. We are programmed to not think these thoughts. Society thinks, ‘‘well there are people who

Different forms of media, such as television, films, books, and newspapers, have similar ways of portraying the criminal justice system. The media constructs representations of crime and justice and in doing this, it presents an often dramatized representation of the criminal justice system; and this does not just influence on the public’s lay view of crime but also for criminal justice experts (Marsh, 2014). In the media it is commonly known that they are a business, and businesses need to make a profit. Because of this, the media’s portrayal of the criminal justice system has been very negative. With the news, their main purpose is to produce what sells. So many of them would edit the information they have gathered and make a story that will sell. Also the media does not show the full process of the criminal justice as a quick process, while in fact it is not. For example, last year, Netflix released a short series called “Making A Murderer”. Most people claimed that they feel like they can solve a crime when they finished watching a series. While that series is very factual, it does not hit every single step of the criminal justice process.

Youth crime has been declining for years, but this has not stopped the media from overreporting youth crime and giving an inaccurate account of what is happening in the community. The media often sensationalize and even exaggerates crime done by youth because “crime is news”. But, this approach can have a negative impact, since most people only get information about crime from the media; therefore, their beliefs about youth crime is distorted. For example, this past month of collecting news articles about youth crime has shown how they focus on crimes that are not only violent but that are quite serious. Eight articles had a Crime Severity Index (CSI) above 100 and four articles were about murders. Furthermore, majority of the articles were about crimes that seemed to be reoccurring. A great example would be the egging incident that occurred in North Vancouver, one which caused major damage to the eye of a teen, when the egg cracked in his eye. The media exaggerated how many egging incidents that occurred, as they made it seem as if there had been no prior incidents in the previous month and it had all of a sudden started to occur. However, in reality, they were just now keeping track of the egging incidents because someone was seriously injured. This shows how the media is a business that needs to make money, so they use crime as people will pay close attention to it.

The importance given to certain crimes in the daily newspapers and other media sources shows us proof to the fact that crime is a topic that has the public’s interest and is a focus of their worries (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2001). It goes on to discuss the fact that crime as reported on by the media increases the public’s levels of fears and that there is little or no correlation to actual levels of violent crime in our society today.

When one is distracted, he/she is less likely to be as efficient at work as when he/she is not being distracted. In a trial, whenever a participant is distracted, there is an increased risk for morelengthy trial, and I think this is not respectful to the right to speedy trial. Federal judges against cameras in courtrooms point out that witnesses may become camera shy and reluctant to testify, jurors will be distracted by the devices. In addition, they may worry about their own safety after having their roles captured on screen. Even lawyers would be profoundly affected by cameras. In a 2011 research paper, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Nancy S. Marder cited a U.S. Supreme Court Justice Kennedy’s words that cameras in the Supreme Court could encourage lawyers and justices to engage in “sound-bites rather than legal arguments.” Furthermore, with the presence of cameras, some justices might feel self-conscious and limit their questions, while others might warm to the attention and become more voluble. The former case might lead to missing pieces of important information that is crucial to the case, and the might lead to more unnecessary disputes and more lengthy trials. Either case may lead to an inefficiency of the legal system. Thus, for the sake of speedy trial and a more efficient legal system, TV cameras should be barred from the

The media misleads the public based on the content it publishes. Media outlets would be more inclined to publish news about violent crimes such as murders, sexual assaults, and gun point robberies because stories like these are dramatized and that’s what grabs the attention of the readers. Media outlets decline the number of reports about a well-known crime infested areas simply because it does not catch the reader’s attention. By mainly reporting on major crimes all the time it tricks the public into thinking that murder rates are at an all-time high. It makes the public believe that the likelihood of being a victim of a terrorist attack is far greater than being involved in a fatal car accident. In the past few days there have been reports on three separate terror attack in the States however the death total of fatal car crashes in Canada in 2014 was 1,834 (Transport Canada

Trial by media is a phrase popular in the late 20th century and early 21st century to describe the impact of television and newspaper coverage on a person's reputation by creating a widespread perception of guilt or innocence before, or after, a verdict in a court of law. Its first inception was the phrase Trial by Television which found light in the response to the 3 February, 1967 television broadcast of The Frost Programme, host David Frost. The confrontation and Frost's personal adversarial line of questioning of insurance fraudster Emil Savundra led to concern from ITV executives that it might affect Savundra's right to a fair trial.