Criminal Behavior In The US Judicial System

The U.S. CJS attempts to decrease criminal behavior through a wide variety of uncoordinated and sometimes uncomplimentary efforts. Each system component police, courts, and corrections has varying degrees of responsibility and discretion for dealing with crime. Often a federal, state, or local system component fails to engage in any coordinated planning effort; hence, relations among and between these elements are often characterized by friction, conflict, and deficient communication are stifled (Peak, pg, 5). Many individuals who are involved in the criminal justice system experience social problems that are contributing factors to crime and criminal justice system involvement. The issues facing the U.S. criminal justice system are plentiful. Providing effective interventions in response to these situations requires that social work practitioners possess specialty practice skills and knowledge, as well as the ability to collaborate …show more content…
My faith is a major factor in my view of everything in life, and the matter of politics and our system of government is not excluded. The Bible gives some incredibly specific requirements and procedures to be followed by the judicial system of society, and the objective was securing justice not advancing a political agenda. Once in America, they sought to take final steps to ensure that the judicial system in the colonies would be free of the problems and corruption of the European courts. Originally, the means of securing justice was through trial by jury quite the contrast to the courts of Europe. They considered the jurors to be 'citizen judges' committed and charged with the responsibility of securing justice in every case. If a law was tyrannical, enforcing it would prevent justice not secure it and justice was the