The Deviant Behavior of Our Justice System
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The Deviant Behavior of our Justice System
The United States Criminal Justice system has changed so much over the years it’s hard to know what’s legal and what’s not. After the Constitution was written in 1787, our nation now had laws and rights that were to be enacted and enforced throughout the entire United States. With these laws and rights, people had to become smarter and know what they were allowed to do and what they weren’t. Lawyers, judges, police officers, and many others, had to become familiar with every word the constitution stated. We were growing, and we needed regulations to form our criminal justice system.
Today, our criminal justice system is made up of many people and various departments, people, institutions, etc., some of which are good and others that are flawed. There are many leaders trying to run our system with not enough followers, this allows for many mistakes and problems which have risen in today’s society. Although there are many arguments, for or against different protests, one of that has brought much attention to our criminal justice system is immigration.
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the definition of an illegal immigrant is: a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence. From what we see and know, our nation was founded by immigrants and we are still flooded with an abundance of illegal and legal immigrants. With an estimated population of over 300 million people in the United States, 11 million of those are immigrants. (“Reuters”) The problem with this is our criminal justice system says we have to deport all illegal immigrants and keep them from coming into our nation, but, we barely ever deport these people and we don’t do a good enough job keeping immigrants from coming into the United States. Ironically, when we do kick out illegal immigrants or prevent them from coming into the U.S., they find another way in
The Deviant Behavior of our Justice System
The United States Criminal Justice system has changed so much over the years it’s hard to know what’s legal and what’s not. After the Constitution was written in 1787, our nation now had laws and rights that were to be enacted and enforced throughout the entire United States. With these laws and rights, people had to become smarter and know what they were allowed to do and what they weren’t. Lawyers, judges, police officers, and many others, had to become familiar with every word the constitution stated. We were growing, and we needed regulations to form our criminal justice system.
Today, our criminal justice system is made up of many people and various departments, people, institutions, etc., some of which are good and others that are flawed. There are many leaders trying to run our system with not enough followers, this allows for many mistakes and problems which have risen in today’s society. Although there are many arguments, for or against different protests, one of that has brought much attention to our criminal justice system is immigration.
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the definition of an illegal immigrant is: a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence. From what we see and know, our nation was founded by immigrants and we are still flooded with an abundance of illegal and legal immigrants. With an estimated population of over 300 million people in the United States, 11 million of those are immigrants. (“Reuters”) The problem with this is our criminal justice system says we have to deport all illegal immigrants and keep them from coming into our nation, but, we barely ever deport these people and we don’t do a good enough job keeping immigrants from coming into the United States. Ironically, when we do kick out illegal immigrants or prevent them from coming into the U.S., they find another way in
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