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Criminal Justice In class Test 1 Jasneet Khasria 217250572 SOSC 2652 TA: Andrea Anderson November 5, 2020

Part A: 1. Ideological Circle is a three-part process which consist of the three targets for those who have a criminal behaviour one is the arrest of one who commits a crime second directing people of criminal behaviours and last those who have anxiety of who commit crimes or has criminal behaviours. This circle is considered to be a type of anti- functional approach towards relationships of criminal labilities. This establishes a political framework of crimes and the control towards them. The connection this has with the course is that it is a portrayal of the criminal justice system. 2. The Bloody Code which was also known as the English legal system in the late 17th century up until the early 19th century. This code had executed the death penalty for more than two hundred people. It was called the bloody code because the massive amounts of deaths that it had caused. Every crime that was committed was pushed by death even if the crime was slight. This connection this has with the criminal justice is how the system has come a long way. Now there are rules in place to make the right decision. 3. Stare Decisis is a legal doctrine this doctrine was had obligations towards the courts of many historical cases. This doctrine was made to ensure people the cases that were similar would have to approach the exact same way. This binds the courts with legal precedents that had been set before. This connects with criminal justice because the doctrine has made the courts more efficient which allows the laws to be more predictable.

Part B: 1. Compare and contrast Canadian criminal law, vis-à-vis sex work, before and after the 2013 Bedford decision. What was the significance of the Supreme Court decision, and what impact has it had for sex workers? The Bedford period had begun in the 1970s to the 2000s which had brough argues that the law needs to change the health and humans’ rights of sex workers. Which was appealed in the Ontario Court of Appeals in December. Sex workers and prostitution was legal in Canada before Bedford had challenged it. Then the laws changed which had made and activity related to prostitution illegal. Which in short meant that prostitution of any kind was considered to be and criminal activity. Those who do it aren’t considered to be worthy of protection because in a way they had “deserved what they got”. This then demotes sex workers and further allows people to be harassed and get physically abused. Before Bedford came along with the laws there were four main section in the criminal code which were related to prostitution. Sections 210, 211, 212 and 213 all of these sections all spoke about the legal ways of prostitution and what was considered to be illegal. For example, one of the sections talked about how it was illegal to be using, owning or working for a place that was used for the purpose of prostitution. Overall the main reason for the Bedford case was to challenge the sections of the Criminal Code for the activates that had been related to prostitution. The government had many arguments on the charter and how it had not violated any of the sex workers rights. The main arguments of the case were house sex workers had no freedom or safety because they all risk going to jail if the laws aren’t being followed in which case, they can be in risk of getting harmed or even die if the laws aren’t being followed. The case had argued that laws should make work for sex workers as safe as possible. They also argued how the law had prevented this and sex worked had faced a lot of violence. It shows how before the cause sex workers were considered to be bad and had no form of security by the government and people didn’t think much of it and left it to be before the Bedford case....