The Justice System

Imagine you are the director of health information services for a medium-sized health care facility. Like many of your peers, you have contracted with an outside copying service to handle all requests for release of patient health information at your facility. You have learned that a lobbying organization for trial attorneys in your state is promoting legislation to place a cap on photocopying costs, which is significantly below the actual costs incurred as part of the contract. (Case Study, p. 20)

In what ways is the indigenous justice paradigm in conflict with the principles of the traditional, adversarial American criminal justice system? In what ways do the principles of Native American justice complement more mainstream correctional initiatives?

“The court finds you guilty on all accounts. You are sentenced to 35 years in federal prison. Court dismissed.” If only justice in America was the same as a hollywood movie, where, in the end, each and every person put on trial receives a true and just verdict. It would be nice if America’s justice system was designed so that “you couldn’t be the next victim of corruption - innocent and sent to prison, or strapped to a table and put to death; or robbed of your life savings by American lawyers” (Sachs, America’s Corrupt Legal). Welcome to the new America, where all it takes is pockets as deep as the Pacific Ocean to be innocent and poverty to be found guilty, thrown in jail, and not given a second thought. Although America often prides itself on its just ways of governing and dealing with potential criminals, the justice system is often corrupted because of social issues, ethical issues, corrupt officials, and control of the press.

The American criminal justice system has set up laws and by breaking the laws would be considered a crime, and depending on the crime that is broken have different types of degrees. And these crimes can be broken into three different categorize and whether or not it will be classified as a felony, misdemeanor or an infraction. A victimless crime is a crime that goes against societies values, norm but the people involved with these criminal acts do not feel victimized, compared to if they were being robbed or murdered. In order to make an educated opinion on a topic one must understand the history, controversy surrounding the topic and the different possible reforms being argued on what steps to take on the future of the society. Then with the information given one can take a firm stance on this controversial topic.

Imprisonment is a rising social issue in America. To put in a numerical perspective, America at only 4% of the world’s population of 7.1 billion is surprisingly the world’s largest jailer at an overwhelming 22 % of the global prison population (Lee 2015). Currently the prison system costs American’s nearly 70 billion dollars (Borowski 2015). With this amount of federal funds going towards housing and feeding inmates, questions begin forming about the effectiveness of the correctional system. Do the punishments fit the crimes, and if so, is it economically beneficial? This paper discusses the benefits and problems of the correctional system in the United States, and

By and large, the appropriation of the case administration layout for a court system can have numerous positive and negative impacts. As the chairperson of a court with 50 workers, the expansion of caseloads has turned into a prevention of productive work. A positive angle for this surprising increase in the amount of cases could evolve into new additional duties for the court system itself. Despite the fact that the immediate benefits of this case administration framework are rare, they have a tendency to become more apparent when the system has been set up for some time. The issue with a longer usage time is that system itself tends to be slow to change. Thus when something has been the standard for quite a while, an orderly change is hard. The negative impact of this case management system is the deficient precautionary measures taken when caseloads get to be overpowering. The case management system combined with a 50 man court framework has turned out to be a disappointment after some time, and the pattern is deteriorating. With the case documenting multiplying in the previous seven years, it is vital that something is done to diminish the effect of being overpowered. Case management has made judges reconsider their present system in dealing with the courts (Peak, 2010).

The justice system in America is racially biased. A study in 2006 said “...about one in 33 black men was in prison, compared with one in 205 white men and one in 79 Hispanic men” (Mac Donald, 2008). However, in order to determine this, one must consider both sides of the situation.

The touchstone of our criminal justice system must be reasonableness. The rights of the accused are enumerated in our country's founding document and have become a bedrock of our criminal justice system. See U.S. Const. Amends. 4, 5, 6, & 14. E.g., Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961); Miles v. United States, 103 U.S. 304 (1880). Those fundamental rights consequently, and rightly, impose high burdens on government officials, such as police officers and prosecutors. See U.S. Const. Amend. 4 (enumerating individuals’ freedoms from unreasonable searches and seizures and setting forth the warrant requirement); Miles, 103 U.S. 304 (stating the government must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt in criminal cases). However, those high burdens must not be unreasonable ones as those officials have very important duties in our society and they must be able to effectively carry out those duties in order to keep our society safe. See Michigan v. Bryant, 562 U.S. 344, 346 (2011) (articulating police

The goal of this paper is to analyze if the criminal justice system, as it is constructed today, is doing enough to punish and to deter crime. It will also look to see if there is deterrent in punishment at all. To do this there are a number of theories that should be examined. This includes the following Deterrence theory, rational choice theory, and lastly the positivist theory. The deterrence theory is a very basic, but overlapping theory to all of the others. We learn that at a very early age that reward vs cost is a critical thing to weigh when making decisions. This carries over to the decision to commit a crime and not to commit a criminal act. The rational choice theory states that human beings are decision making creatures. This theory would subscribe to the idea that the tougher the punishment, the higher the cost. The higher the cost, the likelihood of an individual committing a crime would drop. The positivist theory subscribes to the opposite of the rational choice theory. Under this school of thought individuals with lower intelligence or lacking social status do not have the same ability to make a rational choice when it comes to the ability to make a choice to, or not to, commit a crime.

It is not doubt that attorneys work hard every day whether it is to prosecute an individual or defend. In today’s society attorney are constantly acquired by defendants in order to be defended from a civil or criminal cases. A defense attorney is responsible for protecting his client’s interest and making sure the criminal justice system work as it is meant to work. A criminal defense attorney role begins not from the time they enter the court room, but long before that. An attorney must have an understanding of the details of a case in which he is working on. Furthermore, attorneys work with other member who will assist in analyzing crime scenes, police reports, and other important documents. Once the information is gathered, it is their duty to determine his or her client’s odds of acquittal or conviction (Bird, n.d.). Soon after, they will begin planning on how to present their case in criminal court. Ultimately however, it is the defendant’s decision to either accept a plea deal that the prosecution may have offered or take the case to trial, even if his attorney may advice differently. The complexity of a trial can depend on whether it is present only before a judge of whether it goes in front of a jury.

Many believe that the criminal justice system of our nation was created with the intentions of keeping our neighborhoods safe, by maintaining law and order within our communities. Has our criminal justice system failed in fulfilling its purpose? Has the system been redesigned with the intentions of unfairly targeting minority men? It seems clear that many agencies have been structured to unfairly target men of color, through many controversial tactics. It is also quite evident that the contentious policing tactics that have been deployed in many minority communities have severed policing relations in these neighborhoods. These unfair tactics have led to the unnecessary death of many minority men. Many believe that there are areas of needed

Crime plays an important role in the United States. The Justice system creates boundaries so that its people can feel safe and equal. It brings fairness to society and defends the people's amendments. There are many advantages towards the use of the criminal justice system such as safety. Safety is a main source that depicts on how the country will feel about abiding the laws. Without a criminal justice system, America would suffer and crime rate would dramatically increase. People would have more freedom to do whatever they please and that can initiate violence. It is crucial to abide by the criminal justice system so that these situations can be prevented. Today the system is broken down into various components that lead to the conclusion

The United States court system is the institution were all the legal disputes in the american society are carryed out and resolved. However, one single court is not enough to resolve every single dispute in society and that is why the court system is made up of two different courts, the federal courts and the state courts. Moreover, the federal and state courts are made up of several divisions made to handle legal disputes differently depending on its seriousness. For example, the state court is made up of trial courts of limited jurisdiction and probate courts were cases and disputes originate and then move up to trial courts of general jurisdiction, intermediate apellate courts, and courts of last resort respectively depending on the case.In contrast, the federal court consists of district courts, territorial coutrs, tax court, court of international trade, claims court, court of veterans appeals, an courts of military review which then move on to courts of appeals respectively and may ultimately end up in the United States supreme court. In addition, cases from state court may also appeal into the federal court system but not the other way around.

On January 18th, 2003 at 6:38 in the morning, a cirrus SR-22 aircraft crashed near the city of Hill City, Nebraska. As part of these unfortunate turn of events, both the pilot and owner of the aircraft subsequently died in the crash. It would be later, that the estate of the two individuals, would take to court the Cirrus Design Group, alleging that manufacturer had failed to either properly train, or instruct the pilot on the operation of said aircraft prior to selling it to him. Furthermore, it was alleged that Cirrus failed to give adequate instruction regarding the recovering of unusual attitudes in flight, ultimately leading to the deaths of the individuals on the aircraft that day when encountering weather

The government in the United States is made in such a way that no one faction of the government has limitless power. In other words, there has always been a system of checks and balances to maintain order in the system. It should be noted that justice in a society relies on restrictions and limitations by not only the citizens but on the government as well. (Delattre, 2011) The limitations and restrictions can only be present till a certain limit. This means that the first line of smooth sailing is the morals and the ethics of a government official himself.