Criminal justice has been altered in many ways as we have grown into the country we are today. It started off a bit rough but that was because it was the beginning of how everything was going to work out in the end. Today, there are still some patches that are being improved but not nearly as many from when we started. Criminal justice in early America was when it all began. Americans had just come from overseas and much of how they dealt with issues were based off of what country they had come from and what they had learned there. Religion was a big deal during this time period, so this meant if someone sinned it was often conceived as a crime and they were punished. Punishments were usually whipping or stoning. Realizing we needed laws
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In 1850, a man named Allan Pinkerton formed America’s first detective agency in a city in Chicago (10 Milestones that Changed Criminal Justice Forever, n.d.). Now that this was created, more crimes could be solved and we would forever have detectives to do so. In twentieth century America, there were many events that changed criminal justice. World War One was from 1914 to 1918 and it involved many countries. Production in America was soaring from trying to keep up with the war, so that meant more job opportunities for everyone including female African Americans. When the war started to come to an end, the production did too and jobs began to run out. Women would quit working so the men could work, but by the time most of the men returned home, jobs were unavailable and this lead to The Great Depression in the 1930s. Around thirteen to fifteen million Americans were unemployed. Business would go out of business and families went without food or clothes or school for a long time. The economy stayed down until World War Two, which was in the 1940s (History.com Staff, 2009). In the 1960s we have the Vietnam War. During this, it was the period of peace, love and drugs so as you can imagine, policemen and the criminal justice system were fighting hard to ban drugs. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. This changed criminal justice because the security, detectives, and policemen
In 1850, a man named Allan Pinkerton formed America’s first detective agency in a city in Chicago (10 Milestones that Changed Criminal Justice Forever, n.d.). Now that this was created, more crimes could be solved and we would forever have detectives to do so. In twentieth century America, there were many events that changed criminal justice. World War One was from 1914 to 1918 and it involved many countries. Production in America was soaring from trying to keep up with the war, so that meant more job opportunities for everyone including female African Americans. When the war started to come to an end, the production did too and jobs began to run out. Women would quit working so the men could work, but by the time most of the men returned home, jobs were unavailable and this lead to The Great Depression in the 1930s. Around thirteen to fifteen million Americans were unemployed. Business would go out of business and families went without food or clothes or school for a long time. The economy stayed down until World War Two, which was in the 1940s (History.com Staff, 2009). In the 1960s we have the Vietnam War. During this, it was the period of peace, love and drugs so as you can imagine, policemen and the criminal justice system were fighting hard to ban drugs. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. This changed criminal justice because the security, detectives, and policemen