Violence: The Role Of Violence In The Criminal Justice System

Violence is defined as the use of physical force to harm someone or something and violence has always been a part of our human nature, however, United States laws prohibit violence and provides consequences to deter it. If one commits an act of violence on another person, depending on the severity, they are arrested and most of them are sent to jail or prison. Though the criminal justice system removes these violent criminals from the streets making them no longer a threat to the public, this does not prevent them from committing violence against other offenders. As the prison system's inmate population in the United States has grown well beyond capacity, so has the level of violence and sexual violence within these facilities. There are many