Justice

1) Discuss the major environmental influences on the agencies of the criminal justice system. - Klofas, Stojkovic, & Kalinich, (1990) described a system 's organizational environment as any external phenomenon, event, group or individual which is composed of technological, legal, political; economic, demographic, ecological and cultural forces - The relationship between an organization and its environment is interdependent. The organization is affected by its environment, and the environment…

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the police officers, detectives, and criminal investigators perform varies of duties that include protecting and serving the community by securing lives of the citizens and property and gathering data and evidence of possible crimes to ensure the safety of the community. Their main obligation is to pursue and apprehend for those who violates the law by issuing warnings, citations, or arresting them. The police officers tend to focus more on…

recent years, criminal justice policy continues increase, therefore, leading to new social problems, such as a growth in the prison population, increased expenditures, and lengthier prison sentences. Over these decades, however, there clearly has been a cause for concern about the lack of accountability and evidence based practice in criminal justice policy in which is needed in order to justify these new social problems and the significant increases in the criminal justice system. Despite…

Progressive reformers believed that each criminal case should be considered separately with factors such as criminogenic environments and mental illness in consideration, resulting in the individualization of the criminal justice system (Rothman, p. 54). Punishment emphasized huge levels of judicial discretion in sentencing using indeterminate sentences, parole, and probation instead of determinant sentences and solely incarceration in order to rehabilitate the offender specific to their needs…

even to the point where people may relate to them. The show I will be focusing on, in particular, will be one of my favorite shows from my childhood, Justice League Unlimited. Ultimately, this show incorporates many aspects from society but also portrays the superhero as being an idealized person. One of the main concepts that is present in Justice League Unlimited is…

Police departments should only retain juvenile records when necessary for investigations or formal referrals to the juvenile or criminal justice systems. Police officers should avoid the stigmatizing effect of juvenile records by retaining only minimal records necessary for investigation and referral in accordance with Juvenile Records and Information Systems standards for retention of police records (Kaufman, I. 1979). This is important because the holding of many records can affect the…

people resulted in execution, even though blacks make up roughly 50% of all homicide victims ("Death Penalty and Race."). These numbers reveal an undeniable bias in the U.S. criminal justice…

The Criminal Justice System of the United States is composed of attorneys and police officers. Both aid in keeping the system running and morally stable, but they face several ethical dilemmas both politically and socially. The first essential element of the Criminal Justice system is law enforcement. In our democratic era, police officers are considered a walking symbol of safety and protection. They need to protect our communities and civil liberties, as well as integrate values of the system…

institutions, the American justice system is statistically biased against African-Americans and other minorities at all levels of the judicial system. Nanya Springer discusses this when she writes in her article about how white defendants usually fair better in trials over black defendants for the same types of crimes. (Springer 1) Also in her article, she talks about another major reason why African Americans are being…

The policy I would like to propose is influenced by the federal criminal justice system and the United States Sentencing Commissions’ guidelines on criminal punishments. The United States Sentencing Guidelines are non-binding rules that set out a uniform sentencing policy for defendants convicted in the United States federal court system (law.cornell.edu).The policy is structured by taking offenses based on the severity of the action and administering a punishment considered fair based on the…