The Four Purposes Of The Criminal Justice System

1) Justice is the principle that focuses on fairness and the ideal of moral equity. Justice is also known as, “Truth in action”, said Benjamin Disraeli.. Yet, it breaks down each connection to the models, justices and the main key points of the law. Social justice shows the aspects of someone’s life and is linked to the fundamental and extensive notions of fairness. Social justice always is connected with the cultural beliefs about being right and wrong. Yet, with criminal justice, it is one of the wider forms of justice. Criminal justice is an important kinda of law by which justice can be achieved. Not only do the victims, defendants, and others seek out for the right or fairness of the criminal justice system. Also the actions of the …show more content…
Laws also serve the rights by maintain human contact, enforcing societies beliefs and defining the environment of a society. The laws are also served by being predictable, and to identify the wrongs and to readdress them. The law has many purposes and protections in this society, yet there are four main purposes of the law. The four purposes are establishing standards, maintaining order, resolving disputes, and protecting liberties and rights. With establishing standards, some of the crimes that are committed are as a society would determine them as behaviors that injury or damage persons or their property. With maintaining order, it has been way off from establishing standards. The law, when enforced provides order consistent with society’s guidelines. With resolving disputes, disputes are unavoidable in a society like we live in today. With protecting liberties and rights, a purpose and function of the law is to protect these various liberties and rights from violations or unreasonable intrusions by persons, organizations, or …show more content…
Sir Robert Pell stated in 1822 that, “The basic mission for which police exist is to reduce crime and disorder.” Although its the job of the police to enforce the law on us , its not their only job. Most of the time officers spend is either answering phone calls that aren't for emergencies and doing traffic control and even writing tickets. Yet, there are a few that spend their time mostly in fighting crime activities. With crime prevention, it is a way to prevent a crime. It is a way of the police acting on a scene before the crime actually happens, thus preventing someone from getting hurt or worse killed. This term, “Crime Prevention” is new yet the meaning of what it stands for is no different to human society. Protecting valuables, limiting access to certain areas, and watching the activity of suspicious people are things that were used long before the term crime prevention was established by Western police in