There are many roles in the courtroom that each person plays and each role has its benefit for the criminal justice system as a whole. It is understandable that each role plays a part in the sentencing with the hope that justice is being served but with much intentions and seen all too well that everyone is not satisfied with the sentencing phase and may feel that justice has not been served and some may feel that it has. In the courtroom the roles of each person happens to be a
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Process Plea bargaining is the essence of the criminal justice system‚ and it is the process in which a defendant pleads guilty to a criminal charge in order to receive some consideration from the state. There are various types of plea bargaining deals that defendants may accept‚ which include charge bargaining‚ count bargaining‚ and sentence bargaining. Charge bargaining requires the defendant to plead guilty to a less serious crime than the one originally charged with. Count bargaining requires
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Racial Disparity is defined as ¬¬¬existing in the criminal justice system when the proportion of a racial/ethnic group within the control of the system is greater than the proportion of such groups in the general population. Basically racial disparity is the inequity of arrests and sentencing for certain groups of people which seem to be a huge problem. In order for the racial disparity policy to be successful we must first identify the components that have led to the current level of incarceration
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The racial hierarchy in the United States is routinely reproduced by the actions of government agents‚ especially police officers (Sola‚ 2014). Police officers have historically played a major role in the subordination of blacks and still do today (Feagin‚ 2000‚ pp. 147-152). Slavery was maintained through the enforcement of acts of intimidation‚ subjugation‚ and violence (Sola‚ 2014). Much like how black bodies were subjected to the whims of
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attorney and prosecutor. What about the other important participants? Court administrators are key factor participants as well‚ such as the bailiffs‚ court clerk‚ court reporters‚ and witnesses. Every one of these participants plays a key role in the criminal justice system and contributes to the effectiveness of the courts existence. The judge is a public officer who hears and decides cases in a court of law. The defendant is the person being accused of a crime and his or attorney (defense attorney)
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Restorative Justice 1 Running Head: RESTORATIVE JUSTICE Restorative Justice and the Criminal Justice System Jeffrey A. McGhee PSF5002 Survey of Public Safety Issues‚ Theory and Concepts 501 West Northern Parkway Baltimore‚ Maryland 21210 Telephone: 410-323-7452 Email: jmcghee6@gmail.com Instructor: Kenneth Szymkowiak Restorative Justice 2 The modern field of restorative justice developed in the 1970’s from case experiments in several communities with a proportionately
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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
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A failure in the criminal justice system or a wrongful conviction. Innocent people’s lives ruined over a crime they did not commit. A wrongful conviction or putting someone behind bars for a crime they did not commit. The repercussions when an individual is wrongly convicted can ruin an individual’s job‚ relationship‚ and many life-changing factors. Wrongful convictions affect everyone‚ they impact society majorly‚ and improving the legal representation for the poor will help solve this issue. Wrongful
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does not seem to not apply to black men. The system has always been judging black men because of what color their skin is on the outside. In the article “Michael Brown and Black Men”‚ Charles Blow showed a black man can be unarmed and still be killed. The film‚ The Central Park Five‚ proves that if you are a black or latino boy in the wrong place at the wrong time‚ especially if it involves a white women being raped‚ you are automatically guilty. Our system has found many ways to convict African Americans
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In today’s criminal justice system‚ jails and prisons are becoming more overcrowded due to the recent increase in crime rates. Many criminal justice agencies have recently found a new method of punishment that can be used deter people from committing criminal actions and further prevent overcrowding the prisons. This new method of punishment is known as restorative justice. This new method of punishment focuses on having the offender restore the losses of both their victim and their community in
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