Criminal justice

apply to every member of the community regardless of any age. The courts and the police have duties to enforce the laws and assure a functional society. There is a hierarchy of courts which assure all members get the assistance they need to get their justice they deserve. Role of the Police: Police do not make the laws, they only enforce them. The police maintain peace and order in the community. It is their job to protect life and property. They try to maintain law and orders by preventing…

The criminal justice system in the United States has increasingly targeted people of color, more specifically African Americans, for crimes that they may have not committed. A huge number of incarcerated African Americans have been wrongfully convicted within the past 20 years. Through the creation of the national police force in 1893, African Americans have had a target on their back. Ever since the establishment of Jim Crows Laws in the 1890s through “separate but equal,” racism has been…

Abstract This paper focuses on the process of mentally disordered offenders in the criminal justice system. Offenders who possess mental illness have a unique set of circumstances and needs which will be discussed in this paper. The elements examined in this paper are based in the process of offenders with mental illness and the needed treatment. The elements include the offenders with mental illness, the different type of treatment, issues concerning their treatment, the mental health…

Klofas, J. (2015). Criminal justice organizations: Administration and management (6th ed.) (pp. 219-248). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. Chapter 8: Personal Evaluation and Supervision The primary objective of criminal justice administrators is to identify the goals of the community and determine the most effective means to obtain these goals (Stojkovic, Kalinich & Klofas, 2015). Therefore, it is important to assess the strategies and methods being implemented within criminal justice organizations in…

Honesty, ethics and professionality are one of the main quality’s that are important for individuals in the criminal justice system. Each of these play a main role in preserving intact the criminal justice system as we know it. A police officer named Jim entered a Sandwich shop during the lunchtime rush. Once in line ready to pay for his meal the owner tells the police officer that payment wasn’t necessary. The officer would be left with the decision of pay or to not. In many cases officers…

The Great Lockup The Great Lockup highlights the discrepancies in the criminal justice system that is subject to study in the modern American justice system. It was evident that there was racial discrimination in the investigative process and the eventual incarceration of the people arrested. The statistics indicate that 2 percent of the whites were locked in prison while over 9 percent of Black Americans were locked up. The disparity in the racial composition of the people incarcerated based on…

The Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC) strives to serve and empower victims of crime across the State of Georgia. CJCC has many moving pieces that are key to its success in providing victims of crime quality services that will help the victims overcome the effects of their victimization. CJCC manages multiple federal and state funding streams that are used to fund victim services agencies throughout the state. “CJCC certifies all victim services providers in Georgia for eligibility to…

We as citizens are united. We have shaped today's criminal judicial system for the last 50 years through generations of witnessing, voicing our perceptions of how we will feel towards the safety and freedom relating to our everyday lives as a whole community that involves the safety of all involved but also including our individual rights as humans regardless. This started back in the earliest of time when we were subjected by the British laws that were mostly punishments and processed unfairly…

While campaigning for the presidency in October 2015, Lawrence Lessig stated “[a]lmost every problem that we see in the criminal justice system flows from the core inequality that we 've allowed to grow within our society. The laws are harshest against the most politically disempowered (the poor); they are unenforced against the most politically empowered (Wall Street).” Although the quote specifically mentions Wall Street, many other white-collar professions have advantages that others do not.…

Lack of Education and the Criminal Justice System. After reading a few very good articles, I found that it is detrimental to rehabilitate our criminals with education. The statistics are clear that it cost less to educate the criminals than it is to keep them in jail. According to The American Prospect, We, the people spend more than $70 billion annually to place adults in the prisons and jails while there are also 7.3 million individuals needing supervision due to their probation and paroles.…