Criminal justice

The goals of sentencing are a complex multistep system that has molded corrections institutions into what we have today. First, revenge which was punishment equated with vengeance and involves an emotional response to criminal victimization. In this step victims feel as though an injury or insult requires punishment in return. Revenge may be thought of as a primitive need, it still plays an important role in contemporary societies. Next, retribution was punishment that involves a “settling of…

The past few years leading up to 2016 has been some of the most eye-opening years for me. They have been a testimony to how an issue plaguing criminal justice can completely outgrow itself and evolve into something much bigger. For me, it started in 2012, which was the year that Trayvon Martin was fatally killed by George Zimmerman. This incident sparked a national debate over how young African American men and women who were unarmed at the time of these incidents were being unjustly killed.…

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…

when it comes to certain crimes. News channels have done an inadequate job on reporting crimes and analyzing the criminal justice system thus leaving the public poorly informed of the issue at hand. Not only does inadequate reporting of crimes hurt the public but also our criminal justice system. Although this analysis focuses on race and religious backgrounds, an example of how our justice system is being affected can be seen in the duties of police officers. In recent years, police officers…

Introduction Criminal justice is a significant segment in any country. Criminal justice is a designed system practiced in institutions as instigated by the government with the aim of maintaining social control as well as curbing and mitigating crime. In criminal justice, appreciation of ethics enables individuals to make moral decisions during uncertainties regarding situations that concern human morals. Therefore, in daily operations of the criminal justice, ethics is very crucial. This is not…

In chapter one of Making Sense of Criminal Justice Policies and Practices by G. Larry Mays and Rick Ruddell, they describe policymaking and the relationship that politics has in the criminal justice system. They provide examples of when a new policy is going to be made, and how it all begins with the general public. In Making Sense of Criminal Justice Policies and Practices, they point that the way the general public contributes is by who they select to represent in the politics. It is also…

of crime. Recidivism rates are out of control and repeat-processing arrestees through criminal the justice system is very expensive for taxpayers. Introduction This paper is an analysis of the concepts of mindfulness, peacemaking, and good lives and how all these ethical practices can play a role in preventing crime and reducing recidivism. Furthermore, this paper will discuss how the criminal justice system can be more lenient and compassionate, yet remain ethical when dealing with…

The final proposal for an alternative to the current punitive model in criminal justice is building a network of community justice centres that are based on principles of restorative justice (McElrea, 2007). This proposal emerged from the report Restorative Justice – The Long View by Judge Fred McElrea in 2007. In 1990, McElrea was appointed as a youth court judge in the first year of operation of the new youth justice system (McElrea, 2011). In addition to working in the adult district court,…

The article "Deterrence and the Death Penalty" states, “Since blacks are three times as likely to be poor as whites, it seems reasonable that race could serve to measure the impact of poverty on criminal charges, convictions, and sentencing” (Johnson and Johnson 9). According to statistics from Amnesty International, the race of the defendant as well as the race of the victim both affect a court’s decision regarding the severity of the punishment…

transparency of their systems to legitimize the criminal justice process. Because of the pivotal importance of systemic legitimacy, racial disparity in punishment has become a polarized topic for criminal justice administrators and academics. Previous research efforts have often delivered data and hypothesis that were conflicting and open to contrary interpretations. This paper seeks to determine the context of racial disparity as applied to the criminal justice process, and if that process…