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Title: What is the criminal justice system


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What is the criminal justice system?
  • Dr. Matt Robinson
  • CJ 3532
  • Injustice in America
  • Appalachian State University

2
System
  • A system is a group of parts
  • that make up a unified whole
  • which is organized and harmonious
  • and that serve a common purpose.

3
Thecriminal justice system
  • The criminal justice system is the term for the
    interdependent parts of criminal justice
  • Parts include
  • Law-making
  • Policing
  • Judicial processes (courts)
  • Punishment (corrections)

4
Is there a criminal justice system?
  • NO these agencies of criminal justice are NOT
  • unified
  • organized and harmonious
  • serving a common purpose

5
Is there a criminal justice system?
  • Agencies of criminal justice have
  • developed separately from each other
  • different budgets
  • different staffing needs/processes
  • different training and education requirements
  • DIFFERENT PURPOSES (see pp. 4-5)

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The criminal justice network (CJN)
  • Agencies of criminal justice
  • Are better considered a NETWORK
  • (agencies that are interdependent but not
    organized or harmonious)

7
All parts of criminal justice effect each other
(and depend on one another)
LAW Crime CORRECTIONS MEDIA
COURTS POLICE Source Adapted from
Robinson (2000 136)
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Which part of Americas CJN is most important?
  • Which receives the most resources?
  • Which has the most employees?
  • Police! (see pp. 21-23)

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What does this mean?
  • Police get more money and people to do their jobs
  • Possible meanings?
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