Hypocrisy On Criminal Justice

Why should we let this continue to happen? The treatment of asylum seekers is appalling and our government is doing nothing about. Not willing to let people enter either way and try to persuade them to go back to their country and majority of them get killed. They do not even have the right to have a lawyer. People now are worried about their life and do not seek freedom and that’s placed at our hands

Visualise that you are in the shoes of one of the Asylum Seekers. They travelled by boat with their family to get to Australia to escape a threat to their lives; would you do the same thing? How would you feel if people from Australia did not let you in and turned their backs on you? You would feel horrible, realising that after travelling for weeks onto to realise that there was no point. This is what asylum seekers out there are feeling.

America’s criminal justice system today is constantly being questioned and scrutinized by citizens. America’s Criminal Justice system is based on morals and beliefs. These original morals and beliefs didn 't come out of anywhere. Europe was a huge influence on America and our criminal justice system. Throughout the years the system has evolved along with our country.

During the period of the Great Depression (1920-1939), the criminal justice system reflected the same amount of struggle as the economy. At this point in America, there were many flaws within the structure of the criminal justice system. Inequality, developing system, and harsh realities of organized crime beat down the structure and credibility within trials. The need for reformation was evident. Minorities during this time period struggled overall for the same equal rights that the white majority was granted. African Americans were most called out on due to the fact they represent a different background, culture and have a unilateral political viewpoint. Although under the influence of the law, it was no different in court, when it came

Every time an innocent person is exonerated based on DNA testing, law enforcement agencies look at what caused the wrongful convictions. There are many issues that contribute to putting guiltless lives behind bars including: eyewitness misidentification, false confessions, imperfect forensic science, and more (Gould and Leo 18). When a witness is taken into a police station to identify a suspect, it is easy for their memories to be blurred and their judgment influenced. This can lead the witness to identify a suspect who is actually innocent. Flawed forensic science practice also contributes to wrongful imprisonments. In the past, analysts have been inaccurate due to carelessness, testified in court presenting evidence that was not based

The operation of the justice system is often a topic being called into question because there are many viewpoints of how it should be operated. The two most prominent viewpoints of this operation are the crime control perspective and the due process perspective (Worrall). Although these are the major viewpoints, they are actually conflicting ideas. Even though they are conflicting ideas, there is no conflict when it comes down to practice in the system. In order to understand how there is no conflict with conflicting ideas, one must first understand the perspectives.

The two most notable observations I made on my visit to the court were; Firstly, The traditional architecture and British symbolism which reinforced a segregation and exclusion of certain racial groups and economically disadvantaged individuals. And secondly, The technical legal language used within the trial and its consequences of exclusion for those who are uneducated, ethnic, from a low socio-economic background or those who are not legal professionals. pose these questions; How can a multi cultural society relate to, and have faith in, a legal system that has inbuilt prejudice stemming from a strong British-monarchical origin, and how can its laws enforce the illegality of racism?; Why would a system insist on truth transparency when it has created a loop hole to its own rules, by making their public conversations private through the creation of legal language?

No matter what job you have in the criminal justice system there will always be ethical dilemmas that arise. As a person who’s job is to enforce the law there is always a way to step over the boundaries whether it be unfair treatment to citizens, inmates or agencies. There is always areas of the career to consider and in order to make everyone happy there are steps that need to be taken. From the police officer on the street to the parole board there is always something that could come up which could have consequences for either decision so which is the right one?

Is the criminal justice system biased? Law enforcement has used techniques such as criminal profiling to achieve the responsibility of protecting and serving society. How they use this practice is the key to whether the system is biased. Criminal profiling is a research method used by law enforcement professionals to select the potential suspects of a specific crime. Zapf (2011) stated “Criminal profiling is the process of identifying behavioral tendencies, personality traits, geographic location, and demographic or biographic descriptors of an offender based on the characteristics of a particular crime” (para.1). Simply explained, specialists such as crime scene investigators look at the crime and try to fit a suspect to that crime based on a number of factors. Those factors could be what the crime scene looks like, the victim, and the area where the crime was committed. Based on those factors a profiler could predict who the offender may be and additional information regarding personality, psychological traits, and social status. For example, the crime is a murder, the victim is a white, thirteen year old boy, the crime scene is completely organized so no evidence is found, and lastly the crime was committed in a suburban area. Gathering all this information, a profiler may predict the offender is a black man, slim build between the ages of 30-35, perhaps has OCD, or is currently unemployed. Now to locate the suspect is up to police officers to use the characteristics

The bias in the American criminal justice system is first reported in the first stages of the system, which includes the (act of asking questions and trying to find the truth about something) and arrest of the suspected people by police personnel (American Civil Liberties Union, 2013). These police personnel discriminately target the minorities as criminal suspects, which eventually skews the racial population of the people arrested, charged, put in jail or convicted (Cole, Smith, & DeJong, 2013). One of the key problems suffering (from sickness) the U.S. criminal justice system is (assuming certain races of people are more likely to commit crimes) (Cole, Smith, & DeJong, 2013). This involves the identification of criminal suspects on the basis race or (special way of speaking/mark that shows emphasis). According to Cole, Smith, & DeJong (2013), (assuming certain races of people are more likely to commit crimes) is widespread because the police agents enjoy a large amount of (ability to make wise decisions) as to who they think about/believe as a suspect. For example, in Baltimore, African-American car/truck drivers are discriminately stopped for minor traffic offenses because they are believed to be more likely tobe start/work at more serious criminal activity than whites (Saad, 2011). This results in a large percentage of innocent African-Americans and other minority drivers such as Puerto Ricans, Colombians and Cubans to be illegally subjected to the embarrassment (in

Is the Criminal Justice System biased towards white people and unfairly punishes black people? The answer is simply no, it is not racist or racially biased. One might think it is, at least from an outsider looking in, especially after this has become such a hot topic as of late. Yet take one look closer and you’ll see all the evidence pointing towards the verdict that the Justice System isn’t racist.

As mentioned, the prison system is unjust as to men of black or Latino background, and such for women just as well. “All participants who identified as black, Native American, or Latino had been arrested by a white police officer at least once (Feinstein, 2015, p.3). The fallacy of the idea of criminal justice is to protect all civilians from harm or crime while instilling fairness amongst all individuals apart from incapacitating the guilty to proportionate punishments, and restoring them as proper citizens. Yet, historically the trend of law enforcement is doing what it was actually meant to do, to target the disadvantaged, to subdue and control certain groups of people, minorities. Minorities are not considered to need a Justice system

Before an individual may be convicted of a crime he or she needs to be held criminally liable for that criminal act. However only those with criminal capacity may be held responsible and punished. This essay shall begin by discussing the concept of criminal responsibility as well as how this concept is applied in regard to pathological offenders, who do not have the required criminal capacity but have committed the crime. Black’s Law Dictionary defines criminal responsibility as referring to an individual’s mental capacity to stand before the court and answer for their actions.

Had the government forgotten our obligation under the refuge convention towards asylum seekers and refugees in our country?

The most commonly accepted definition of a ‘refugee’ is set out in the United Nations 1951