Criminal Justice System Shelby Goodwin Professor Debra Shiftlett-Picardi Foundations of the Criminal Justice System Search Warrant Issue Process and Fourth Amendment Requirements The Search Warrant is known as an order being written and issued from the officials of the court. The warrant bestows the officer full authority to find a person at a particular place while looking for particular objects and to take possession if objects are found with the person. As per the criminal court‚
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benefit from the failure of the system‚ the poor suffer. There is a double standard in who the criminal justice system chooses to punish. For example‚ a man who commits fraud‚ insider trading‚ etc.‚ is charged with 109 felonies and only receives a maximum of 10 years in prison but only serves six. In comparison‚ a man who commits theft by stealing videocassettes from Walmart receives 50 years. Situations like these‚ raise the question as to who the criminal justice system truly benefits and who it does
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the criminal justice system exceptions in application of law? It’s not fair to punish someone if they did something by accident or punishing a kid for doing something that he didn’t know was wrong. On the other hand‚ it’s a different story if they did it on purpose or if they knew it was wrong‚ and the person still chose to do it. For those reasons‚ the United States criminal justice system should allow exceptions in application of law. One topic of exceptions made to the criminal justice system
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within courts can also point to the faulty system that it is occurring in. The criminal justice system acts as the machine operated by the cogs. Courts often have a culture of lawyers who are socialized to see judges and law as supreme and not too question the outcomes. When lawyers are there to ensure their client is given a fair and speedy trial often you will see they are not there to represent or fight for their client‚ they are there to keep the system going. This can be seen as the crime control
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Minorities are being overrepresented in the criminal justice system with numbers as high as “30% of the probation population (approximately 1.2 million people)‚ 44% of the prison population (est. 586‚300)‚ and over 40% for the parole population (est. 309‚000)” all of which are African American (Taxman‚ Byrne‚ 2005). The numbers continue to grow for the Hispanic population as well “12% of probationers (491‚700)‚ 18% of parolees (136‚000)‚ and 19% of prison inmates (251‚000) are Hispanic” (Taxman‚
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Throughout our readings‚ it became clear that police are forced to deal with the burdens of our society’s inequalities‚ while politicians often ignore them. The politics of criminal justice are put in place in order to fix society and reduce crime‚ yet we are constantly seeing legislation‚ such as legislation to do with the War on Drugs or the War on Poverty‚ that seems to increase crime and even worsen racial and class divides‚ while the intention was the exact opposite. With the legislation still
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Comparative Criminal Justice Systems The goal of socialism is to minimize people’s suffering through public control of industry and social services; socialism rejects class-based society (TheFreeDictionary‚ 2010). Socialism promises prosperity‚ equality‚ and security to the people. However‚ in many cases socialism has brought poverty‚ misery‚ and tyranny to the people; equality is achieved in the sense that everyone is equal in misery (Perry‚ 1995‚ June). Key characteristics of the socialist system in
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Introduction to Criminal Justice January 06‚ 2013 Social justice is a concept of a society in which every human being is treated justly‚ without discrimination based on financial status‚ race‚ gender‚ and ethnicity. The Declaration of Independence states “all men are created equal.” Nowadays we call that equality “social justice”. All in all‚ social justice means equal justice‚ concerning all facets of society. Basically meaning‚ all
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were in charge of a state corrections department the way I would design my facilities would be similar but differentiate based upon the need of security. Criminals with longer sentences who have commited serious crimes such as murder‚ etc. would be placed in a maximum security prison. It would be surrounded by high stone walls with detection devices and huge spotlights. There would be great security as to eliminate any fleeing of prisoners. Criminals of less serious crimes such as minor assault and small
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the foundation of the criminal justice system: It’s what helped us develop the moral reasoning we use‚ how we define criminal activity‚ and what we as a society deem as acceptable punishment. It’s an important topic because our criminal justice system is most effective when it’s operating in an ethical manner. 1. Police We have lots of ways to examine how ethics can influence police behavior‚ including how the police interact with a community and how that community interacts with police. When
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