Argumentative Essay On Criminal Justice

There are three significant issues concerning law enforcement, namely enacting the law, police discretion, and assessment of criminal behavior. Different entities create and enact laws that are specific for the societies those laws represent.

The crimes in America have completely spiraled out of control. America has lost its way dealing with all the criminal activity that has taken part in its destruction. America has dealt with the violence and drugs mixed with other criminal activity for many years. The United States government has been troubled by crimes that range from shoplifting to homicide. America has been under debate about the crime of these 50 states, but no action has yet been taken to prevent the spread of dangerous crimes has put many people in body bags and prison.

The American Criminal Justice System are sets of agencies and process made by the government to control crime and to penalize those who commit it. The justice system is different based one’s jurisdiction, meaning city, state, federal or tribal government or military installation. The Criminal System is divided into two main parts, the state and the federal. The state portion handles crimes within its state boundaries. The federal portion handles crime committed on Federal property or in two or more states (“Criminal Justice” 1). The American Criminal Justice System needs reform because of its emphasizes on incarceration punishment rather than Rehabilitation. Our justice system especially enforces punishment on blacks and Latinos resulting of overpopulation of prisons like Rikers Island for petty crimes. Also, another reform needed the juvenile cases. For example, juveniles who commit petty crimes shouldn’t be sent to adult prison and shouldn’t be near more dangerous and serious inmates.

The United States of America has many horrible police officers. This has created a stereotype that all police officers are terrible. One of the main reasons police officers have been target lately is, because many innocent people are harassed by them daily. There are multiple ways to classify these police officers as horrible being, but police brutality, corruption, and how they handle violent protest are three of many classifications.

Today we are talking about if juvenile justice systems are beneficial or not. In my opinion I think they are because the correctional officers are always trying their best to let these kids have another chance to change their lives. In addition people might say that if you put a juvenile in a justice system that it won’t make a difference but I don’t think so. They actually have proof that the kids do change. According to the article “Character-building, not jail time, in a Texas juvenile court program” it states “the program is about more than simply telling the boys to stay out of trouble. He and his team teach the boy’s life lessons about accountability, respect, responsibility and empathy.” Which is stating that even

It is no surprise that recently there has been controversy on the issue of police force. So many people have been taken from their families over something that could have been prevented without taking it as far as killing. From Michael Brown to Walter Scott it just doesn’t stop. Thankfully, for some of these incidents a witness has caught Officers using excessive force. But others, you just get to hear the Officers side of the story since the other person isn’t alive to tell their side to what happened. Which is definitely not enough. There needs to be a legitimate system where we can see everything that happens start to finish when excessive force is the case. Organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) are demanding for

This documentary was named after the 13th Amendment for a reason. This reason is to show the fact that even though slavery was abolished, discrimination and some types of segregation still exist in the United States. Ever since 1790, incarceration has been the center of the nation’s criminal justice system. Over the years, many alternatives to incarceration have been tried. It wasn’t until the late 1980’s when our criminal justice system

One would be hard pressed to argue that the criminal justice system in America is perfect. Everyday, countless headlines can be seen nationwide about some perceived injustice within the courts. Our criminal justice system is no different than our society wherein special people get special consideration, men and women are held to different standards, and so forth and so on. As an American, I have accepted these facts of life. I am a father of two boys, a varsity baseball coach and a police veteran of 17 years. In my experience as a father, coach and police veteran, I have seen and heard it all.

The three arguments that are mentioned why minorities and other underprivileged citizens are overrepresented in the criminal justice system are as follows that are mentioned in the textbook: minorities are responsible for more crimes than other races, the criminal justice system is racially biased, and that society is racially biased, and the criminal justice system is a tool being leveraged to continue the oppression of minorities. To go with number one, it states that people of color commit more crimes, in return leads to repeated offenses causing them to receive harsher sentencing. You might get a Caucasian male who commits rape only sentenced to 6 months for it being his first offense, but then you have an African American male

Imagine you are a teen walking down the street with a friend. Now imagine being surrounded by police and getting searched for something that is not there. Since the item in question can not be placed the accuser changes their story; After multiple versions of what allegedly happened the police arrest you and your friend. Due to having a history of theft, a judge charges you with second degree robbery, even though there is no evidence to prove any wrong doing. Thinking the justice system will come through, and knowing your innocence, a trial is requested. Bail is set and cannot be paid due to economic hardship. Another consequence of not having money for bail, is there is also no money for a private attorney. A public defender, who has to many cases to keep straight, is assigned to help defend in court, yet he is trying to lessen his load and recommends several times that a plea deal is the best option that should be taken, even in the case of innocence. Picture holding out hope that if the case could just go to trial all would come to light. Four years pass by, mostly spent in solitary confinement, where the harsh circumstances begin to take a toll, mentally and physically. Imagine conditions so horrible, death seems better than enduring another day. Now picture the day for “justice” is finally here. No sooner does court get started it ends. The case gets thrown out due to the person who started all of this not being present. All the suffering that has been endured,

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This paper will describe my understanding of the text and of the lectures provided in the class. Unlike most classes, where I understood only my view of the text, this class was geared so each student would understand each other’s view. 3 An organization is a collective that has some boundary and internal structure that engages in activities related to some complex set of goals. Members of organizations attempt to meet their psychological, ego and emotional needs within the organization. Criminal justice organizations are particularly unique compared to other public or private sector organizations because of the governmental granted authority. Management within these organizations can be defined as the process by

The film Birth of a Nation, released in 1915, was revolutionary in a technical and historical sense. It was the first American film to be 12 reels long, cost $100,000 dollars and is considered to be the first blockbuster. (Stokes 2008) The film was also an achievement in filmmaking as it provoked emotion and was very effective at conveying its message. The ideological message is the cause of controversy as it is focused on an inaccurate reimagining of African Americans, the KKK and the era of Reconstruction. The film did do a couple things right which was show how southern whites wanted to rewrite the history of reconstruction. Birth of a nation confirmed the story many whites wanted to tell which was to erase defeat and to take out of it a

Before going into college to study Criminal Justice, I had the same opinion as most people had when it came to criminals or deviant behavior. The classic “if you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime,” phrase was mentioned many times throughout my youth, whether it be for something as simple as an explanation for grounding me or to explain why doing the wrong things will give you a one-way ticket to prison. My life was surrounded by crime. I managed to separate myself from the “wrong-doers” with the help of my mother, but I still spent most of my life around law enforcement. To me, police officers were always the ones doing everything right. In my mind, if someone died at the hands of a police officer it was probably their fault, if they were beaten they deserved it, the police were only doing what they had to do to make our communities a safer place.

“Americans have always had ambivalent feelings about crime and punishment” (71). Many say our American System of Justice is broken, for they believe the system is looking to just punish those who have done wrong and is not looking to rehabilitate them, especially for juveniles. Then there are some who say, the American System of Justice does not need to change for it already punishes criminals with due process, and rehabilitates them. The American System of Justice should change the way they punish criminals, because those who are incarcerated for nonviolent crimes are taking up space in our prison system, juveniles are being put in solitary confinement and coming out more damaged than they were, and lastly some offenders are serving to long for the crime they committed.