Criminal Justice System Summary

The book breaks the criminal justice system into three main components: police, courts, and corrections. The system would not survive if one of the components were not there. This is because they all play a different and very important role in the criminal justice system. The police are there to enforce the law, the courts are there to decide if the accused is guilty, and correction is there to decide the punishment if the accused is found guilty. However, in some situations, the components may develop conflict because each of the components is typically only concentrating on their own interests and not the interest of the overall system.