Essie Harris
CJA/484
June 9, 2013
Bill Markopoulos
Abstract
The criminal justice system has three components, which are law enforcement, courts, and corrections. Each of them plays a major role in the criminal justice system. The United States has the most documented incarceration rate in the world. By the end of 2009, 743 adults per 100,000 populations, which is incarcerated. Crime has decreased since 1993, but there is still an increase on the incarceration rate in the United States. The correctional population has doubled because of the sentencing guidelines and the drug has sent many Americans to prison. In 2008, 7.3 million people were on probation, jail or prison, or on parole.
Criminal Justice Trends In the criminal justice system there are many trends. Many of the issues and controversy of the corrections part of the criminal justice has been accumulated over centuries. People will learn and comprehend that the criminal justice is improving and developing different ways to keep improving. In this paper an evaluation will be conducted on the past, present, and the futures of corrections. It will also mention the budgetary and managerial, in which the future trends will likely have not only on corrections but also on the criminal justice system as a whole. It will include the ways the corrections system is developing within different trends as well. In 1870, leaders in American corrections, met with people from Cincinnati, Ohio, first developed principles stating the beliefs and values underlying the practice of his or her profession (Nolin, 2005). The National Prison Association was founded as a result of this meeting (American Correctional, 2001). This organization evolved into the American Correctional Association. As member corrections the role is to assist in the prevention and control of delinquency and crime, but this also depends on the prevention of criminal and delinquent behavior and the constructive qualities