The Disappearance of Criminal Law

Police Powers and the Supreme Court

by Richard Jochelson and Kirsten Kramar  

In The Disappearance of Criminal Law, Richard Jochelson and Kirsten Kramar examine the rationales underpinning Supreme Court of Canada cases that address the power of the police.

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  • November 2014
  • ISBN: 9781552666845
  • 124 pages
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In The Disappearance of Criminal Law, Richard Jochelson and Kirsten Kramar examine the rationales underpinning Supreme Court of Canada cases that address the power of the police. These cases involve police power in relation to search, seizure and detention; an individual’s right to silence, counsel and privacy; and the exclusion of evidence. Together these decisions can be understood as the rules by which good governments should act, and they serve to legitimate the actions of the police. Because there is no singular definition of “police powers,” some argue that they do not exist, nor is there a specific theory about such powers, even though the term appears thousands of times in legal databases. Jochelson and Kramar illustrate the ways in which the Supreme Court, by allowing for increased surveillance and control by the state, is using the Charter to impose limitations on the rights of Canadians.

Crime & Law

Authors

Richard Jochelson

Richard Jochelson is a faculty member in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Winnipeg and holds his PhD in law from Osgoode Hall. He has published articles dealing with obscenity, indecency, judicial activism and police powers. He is a member of the Bar of Manitoba and co-authored Sex and the Supreme Court: Obscenity and Indecency Law in Canada with Kirsten Kramar (2010).

Kirsten Kramar

Kirsten Kramar is a professor of sociology at the University of Winnipeg.

Contents

  • Introduction: The Disappearance of Criminal Law
  • The Right to Privacy
  • Ancillary Powers Test — The Expansion of Balancing Tests
  • Right to Silence and Counsel
  • (In)Exclusion of Evidence
  • References

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