Our Criminal Justice System

Our Justice system came to this country with the settlers from England. The systems mirror each other and each have evolved to our present systems. As with all systems our justice education systems has flaws. Remedies such as reintegration need to be implanted to help address some of the justice systems flaws. In my proposal, I will touch on the subject of our youth and how we need to educate them before they become a statistic in our criminal society. Rehabilitation is often cited as the alternative to trying juvenile defendants as adults and sentencing them to prison. Incarceration often encourages criminal behavior. Thus, the convicted juvenile is likely to commit more crimes when he is eventually released. However, if the juvenile is …show more content…
It is generally thought that restorative justice should be integrated with legal justice as a complementary process that improves the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of justice as a whole. This program is most effective as it increases offender’s understanding of everyone’s perspective and the impact of their actions on the community that is willingly coming together and helping the offender reintegrate into their community. Offenders must take responsibility for their actions as well and develop methods to avoid committing the same …show more content…
The lack of educational services while incarcerated is a major problem. They have trouble reentering the school system because they are so far behind the other students. This causes the youth to become disillusioned thinking he is better of quitting school. Now without an education his career choices are very limited. There are very little jobs available and more so for an African American youth that has been incarcerated despite the level of severity of the crime committed. The mass incarceration of our Black and Latino youth is at an all-time high, more than any other country in the world. I once read that in South Africa during, Apartheid in 1993, there were about 851 per 100,000 black males incarcerated, and in the United States there were about 4,919. Per 100,000. This is inconceivable because South Africa at that time was known to be a racist society, while America was known as the leader of the “Free World.” The problem of inequality doesn’t seem to be one that is going away anytime soon. Until changes are made in the way minorities are treated in this country the problem will fester and