What is the role of a criminal justice professional? There are numerous amounts of roles that a criminal justice practitioner plays. Depending on which section of the criminal justice system you are certified in‚ your studies ensures your specialty in your career field. In this particular essay‚ we will focus on the key social issues contributing to the service of the criminal justice practitioners‚ the role of the criminal justice professionals serving needs‚ and how the key social issues impact
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Justice and Authority paper Discretionary authority in the Criminal Justice system Allen Ray CJA/550 April 11th‚ 2011 Discussions in how discretion is exercised in the legal profession often raises debate in the criminal justice system. Discretion is vastly misused in many of the criminal justice fields. Areas such as youth justice‚ sentencing‚ policing‚ and a host of many other legal fields need better understanding‚ interpretation and communication. As with many practices‚ the object
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Foundation Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice Paper presented as a part of a Congressional Research Briefing entitled “Juvenile Crime: Causes and Consequences‚” Washington‚ January 19‚ 2000. Address correspondence to the author at the Department of Psychology‚ Temple University‚ Philadelphia‚ PA 19122‚ or at lds@vm.temple.edu. 1 I’d like to talk today about recent changes in juvenile justice policy that are being implemented despite a full consideration of what
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Canadian criminal justice system‚ which is meant to guarantee the safety of citizens within the country and is used to sustain social control and deliver justice for a society. In the year of 2011‚ the Conservative Party government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper introduced Bill C-10‚ titled The Safe Streets and Communities Act under the impression that Canada was experiencing a serious crime problem amongst a lenient criminal justice system
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helps a person be able to choose how to act in certain situations. Ethics is very important people who hold positions of power above others and serve as a leader in the community. Since they have a huge influence on society other members of the criminal justice system make critical decisions and the choices they make have a huge effect on the lives of the people within the community that they work in. Due to the positions that they hold it is very critical that they make the right decisions on how to
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Criminal Justice Trends CJA/484 February 03‚ 2012 Instructor Rachel Jung Criminal Justice Trends The criminal justice system will always be an important part of society. Therefore its past‚ present‚ and future trends can be detrimental to our society as a whole. Society must become more educated on the value the criminal justice system holds and the affects it has overall. The society continues to change; which forces policies‚ procedures and costs in the criminal justice system to do the
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are verbal and non-verbal forms of communication as professionals in the criminal justice system must be able to speak and write clearly and coherently. Being able to effectively communicate verbally also requires attentive listening skills to adequately understand what a person is saying. A lack of listening skills is an issue within the criminal justice system as the average listener only hears‚ understands‚ and retains 50 percent of what is actually being said (Mathewson‚ 2009). With the significant
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One of the biggest issues in criminal justice right now is the use of force by police officers and more specifically the use of excessive force. This is such an issue in the field of criminal justice because it has led to an almost anti-police movement across America‚ specifically in those areas where minorities are prominent. This issue is an issue in criminal justice due to the fact that through all of the cases of police brutality across America the public opinion towards police has been hastily
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Description and Examples of the Three Perspectives of Viewing Crime There is a large amount of deliberation on the definition of crime because it is viewed in different ways in every culture. Professional criminologists usually identify with one of three common views for defining crime: the consensus view‚ the conflict view and the interactionist view. The most popular is consensus view‚ which states that society as a majority agrees on what behaviors should be illegal. This view also believes
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The criminal justice system has goals that it tries to achieve. The CJS is to respond in the name of society when there is a crime that has been committed. The CJS spans from federal‚ state‚ and local governments. Within the system‚ there are three agencies that work together as a system to implement the criminal justice functions. The agencies are law enforcement‚ the courts‚ and the corrections. Each one of these agencies has a criminal justice process that proved the justice to the victims and
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