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Criminal Justice System Analysis

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This small percentage of personnel that make up the recidivism rate will continually come and go in the different levels within the criminal justice systems. In which, these repeated actions by known offenders requires the city, state and federal agencies to take actions to deal with these individuals to provide the safety for the rest of the community. During my short tenure in the Butler County jail system as an intern, I was able to observe certain individuals being released from the jail system and within a week or two brought right back into the correctional institution for either the same offenses or some new criminal activity added to their resume. Additionally, my observance as a student of the Criminal Justice System, of the original …show more content…

After the verdict was delivered they were punished immediately and released. However, the formation of the early 1800’s America prison systems has changed dramatically over the years and due to changes in ‘due process’ in the criminal justice system, a back log in the prison systems has been created. My first hand observations of the personnel coming and going in the correctional system clearly shows this epidemic is not solely a criminal justice issue, but a social issue within our society as a whole. However, society and the leadership that governs the people, has placed this burden solely upon the criminal justice system to fix this complex social issue. I personally feel this issue falls back on our communities in America. The lack of personal investment in the community by each individual has gradually plagued our country by leaving the solutions to our problems solely to the people that we elect to represent us at the different levels of government from local to our federal offices and has led to many community’s downfall and …show more content…

One particular theory that has stuck with me throughout my studies in all my CJS classes was the “Broken Window Theory” by James Wilson and George Kelling. They tell how social behavior in the communities has set the tone for the people to develop a norm by providing indicators of how urban disorder, vandalism to property and these misdemeanor crimes eventually leads to more serious offenses within the communities that creates fear among the people which reverts them to isolation from the community. The protocols set by the Butler County Sheriff’s office and other city law enforcement agencies to go into communities and build a positive personal relationship and regain the trust of the people with the people who took an oath to serve and protect them. The efforts by the Butler County Sheriff’s office has taken tremendous strides to bring back positive community relations by taking actions against the drug epidemic that has plagued this area due to the social and economic downfall within our communities and throughout Butler county. This leads back to my point earlier about how this fight against the drug epidemic is not solely a criminal justice issue, but a social issues across the board

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