population is seventy-two out of a hundred thousand people (see fig.1 and 2). American prison systems need to be updated similar to the Norwegian prison system‚ via using taxpayer money more towards rehabilitation‚ retraining prison guards‚ or even reevaluating the goal of criminal justice‚ thereby providing healthier ex-convicts that give back to the economy in society. In order to clearly understand and evaluate prisons systems‚ a person must comprehend the origin and basis of a prison. According to
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Criminal justice issues among individuals with mental health and substance use conditions is a growing problem. This paper examines mental health issues as it relates to the criminal justice system and specifically how mental health and the mentally ill can play a role in the crime. Different factors can become a problem with mental health illness and the criminal justice system. Mental health illness can contribute to jail and prison overcrowding‚ high crime rates‚ drug addiction‚ and many other
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The criminal justice system works in a series of ways and involves many different jobs. They work to ensure just consequences for everyone. They don’t just focus on the criminals but the victims and witnesses. There are also many roles that make up the criminal justice system through each phase of it. The criminals justice system is designed in steps. The first being Investigation of a crime. This involves a lot of what we learned about in week two‚ a probable cause. This can be a very hard‚ According
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The Criminal Justice System in the United States of America has a concept called the Courtroom Workgroup. This consists of the Judge‚ the Prosecutor and the Defense Attorney on the first level and it consists of the Bailiff‚ the Clerk and the Court Reporter and others associated with the daily functioning of details in a court on the second level. This Workgroup is a set of people who meet regularly on a daily basis to discuss various crimes. According to them the only variant is probably the name
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Criminal Justice System The criminal justice system is nothing more than different sets of agencies tasked to carry out penalties for those who have committed a crime and broken the law. How the criminal justice system actually works depends on where and who is in charge such as‚ a city‚ county‚ federal government and also where the laws are effective such as‚ military jurisdiction. The main two systems that make up the criminal justice system are State and Federal systems. State criminal justice
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Over the course of the semester‚ we have seen many examples of how the media can negatively affect how people feel about the criminal justice system. I was exposed to shows like Law and Order and Snapped at a young age. Because I watched a lot of these types of shows at a young age‚ I realized that a job dealing with the criminal justice system was something I was interested in pursuing. I can even remember telling people that I wanted to be a forensic pathologist when I was only in sixth grade.
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technology has allowed for numerous technological advancements within the Criminal Justice System‚ resulting in more efficient and reliable ways to receive and process data. The advancement of technology helped develop a more efficent method in identifying criminals biometrically through improvements in databases.A new biometric system‚ the Next Generation Identification (NGI)‚ was evolved by the FBI from the previous system‚to better improve the effect and accuracy of biometric scans when addressing
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the criminal justice system in the United States today because of its perspective of “an eye for an eye”. Retribution is a theory that states that people should be punished for that crime that they have committed equally to what they have done (396). It is not like the other two goals of punishment‚ which is deterrence and rehabilitation that does not make much of an impact on criminals we see today. Deterrence has many problems that arise with it and is not very affective‚ such as a criminal would
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some form of mental illness‚ current mental health funding is unable to cater for all mental health needs‚ forcing prisons to become the new mental health institutions.” Mental Health Services in Australia’s Criminal Justice System Mental Health Services in Australia’s Criminal Justice System Table of Contents: 1.0 Introduction 3 2.0 Description of Social and Legal Issues 4 2.1 Social Issues………………………………………………………………………………4 2.1.1 The lack of professional screening and health services in rural
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Nearly 6.2 million students between the ages of 16 and 24 in 2007 dropped out of high school‚ including nearly three of 10 Hispanics.[24] The issue of high-school drop-outs is considered important to address as the incarceration rate for African-American male high school dropouts is about 50 (fifty) times the national average.[25] In 1971‚ the Supreme
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