What Are The Three Major Components Of The Criminal Justice System

In the following paper you will see the correlations between the three major components of the Canadian criminal justice system. First we must examine each of the components of the criminal justice system alone before we get to understand how they overlap together. First of all, there is the police, the courts and the corrections. The police are the law enforcers and maintainers of order throughout Canada. There are three levels of policing in Canada; municipal, provincial and federal, there are some circumstances that they work together to accomplish a common goal. An example would be a national arrest warrant where all police would be on the lookout and involve the federal police, and provincial and or municipal police to get the suspect in custody. the most common of the three levels are the municipal police force.
Although most municipalities contract out the positions to the Royal Canadian mounted police. …show more content…
The exception is Nunavut who has the Nunavut court of justice. Canadas only single level trial court. So it’s basically rolling the superior trial court, and the territorial court into one and having a single judge who hears all of the cases. (Canada, 2015)
Corrections in Canada are divided between the federal, provincial and territorial systems. They have a wide arrangement of agencies, facilities and programs. The type of correctional institute the person goes to is determined by the length of the sentence. So if a person is sentenced for two years or less they would be held in a provincial or territorial government run facility. If the person is sentenced two or more years, then they are going to be placed in a federal government run