Criminal justice

Juvenile offenders are becoming a significant concern for all professionals within the criminal justice system. Juveniles cannot lead a successful life when they have been a part of criminal activity and have not been rehabilitated. These individuals are the future or our country and of the world. When they have gotten involved in illegal activity it is less likely that they will have a positive impact on society. By using illegal substances, there are more individuals affected than just the…

facing the African-American, and our community as a whole, and is brought up in the New Jim Crow is: the myth of color-blindness of our Criminal Justice system. Michelle Alexander reiterates, that despite the popular belief, our Criminal Justice system is not color-blind after all. She proves this argument by illustrating case after cases where our criminal justice system has treated exactly the same scenarios differently. The only noticeable difference in such similar situations has been the…

prisons currently being 30% over their capacity. Realizing the need to remedy this situation, the General Assembly created the Criminal Justice Recodification Committee to reform the penalties for certain crimes and seek ways to reduce the state’s prison population. The year 2017 presents an opportunity for the Ohio legislature to implement these changes and seek a criminal justice system that values proportional punishment and respects human dignity. Oklahoma Currently half of the…

The male case is a first time federal offender and was sentenced to 2 years for 4 counts of robbery and 3 counts of the use of an imitation firearm. Robbery is considered a violent offence, but the issue with this it is generalizing all robbery as violent. The victims of the robbery only received minor injury of hitting, slapping and striking. Mild psychological harm to victims where their was no victim impact statement and where the victim even refused medical help. In my opinion, a person…

Criminal justice can be traced back throughout history. Through research of the Middle Ages it has been discovered that there was even a sort of criminal justice system back during this time period (Siegel, Worrall 2016 p. 88). Through the evolution of the human race; there has also bene an evolution in crime. With this the criminal justice system has had to evolve to become a deterrent and a judge for the society issues at hand. Throughout time the criminal justice field of work has had to…

ideology of a criminal (Criminology 2010). Criminology always is trying to solve the question, why crime occurred and why people commit them? This is why Criminology prepares a student to understand criminal’s behavior. Criminologists are mainly concerned with identifying the suspected cause of crime. Even though some criminologists devote their research to justice and social control and are concerned with how the agencies of justice operate. (Criminology, 2000). Unlike Criminal Justice,…

The American criminal justice system is the epicenter that deals with cases portraying racism. People’s attitude towards this topic is divided into two points of view: discrimination is present when convicting a person from a minority or racism is no longer part of the criminal justice system. The first point of view, in “Criminal Justice,” Jesselyn McCurdy argues that racial profiling by law enforcements agents is based on purely racial stereotypes (45). She stresses the fact that the…

The Criminal Justice system is a group of agencies and processes established by the government to control crime and impose penalties on those who violate the laws. There is no one single Criminal Justice System in the United States but they are all smaller similar systems. The jurisdiction of the system is what signifies how that particular system runs; different jurisdictions have different laws, agencies, and ways of managing their system. The Criminal Justice system operates through numerous…

studying criminal justice systems by taking an international perspective. Comparative criminal justice is a subfield of the study of criminal justice that relates different justice system from around the world. There are three different ways of studying criminal justice systems. Each of these approaches encounter various beliefs of different societies.The criminal justice systems have changed and transformed over time. According to Reichel (2013) “Like all other social institutions, criminal…

Shawshank Redemption is a movie that contains many different criminal justice themes, as well as many important life lessons. The movie allows for the audience to see an innocent man being punished by the criminal justice system, the brutal life inside prison, and the harsh reality for criminals once they are released from prison and try to re-acclimate to society. The movie brings to light several criminal justice themes and the truths behind them that are usually unseen to the general public…