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    Criminal Justice Benefits

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    Justice servers and law enforcers are all apart of a diverse family with one purpose, to make the world a better place. By serving their community they are each placing a brick to form a strong wall of passion and ambition. Detectives are highly admired for a plethora of reasons and a dream of mine has always been to make this world a better place by helping and assisting in any way, shape, or form possible. I have learned that doing the minimum was never enough and commitment is a sacrifice. By

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    Fairness and Justice of the Criminal Justice System Has the United States Justice system been good to you and your family? The American Justice system was given to us by our brilliant forefathers. They designed it to provide justice for the innocent and punishment for the guilty (Davidson Para.1). In today’s society that is greatly debated. Many child rapists and murders get off with no punishment and many innocent individuals have been put behind bars. If everyone were to do the job they were given

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    Within the system of criminal justice, the restorative justice conferences allow the offenders, victims and their respective family members and friends to come together to explore how those involved in the incident had been affected and, when possible, to decide how to repair the harm and meet their own needs. A victim can request a restorative justice approach to help an offender comprehend and understand how the crime has affected their life, and/or other people's lives in the process, to gain

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    Restorative justice is a system of criminal justice that focuses on the rehabilitation of offenders through reconciliation with victims and the community at large. Understanding the definition may be really hard to understand, however when we put it in a different form that many can understand it comes down to repair, encounter and transformation. Our book describes restorative justice in three parts as accountability, community protection and competency development (Sieh, 2006). Accountability

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    the differences in the current mainstream criminal justice system and restorative justice? Define both while answering the question. The focus of the current mainstream criminal justice (CJ) system and the focus of restorative justice (RJ) are where true differences lie. The current criminal justice system focuses on punishment, while restorative justice emphasizes repairing the harm that has been caused (Wormer and Walker, 2013). In the restorative justice process, many people are directly involved

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    United Sates criminal justice system: law enforcement, courts and corrections. Modern-day criminal justice continues to be a complex part of our society. The United States criminal justice system is broken down into three different parts to maintain the philosophy of dealing with criminals in a different stage of their criminal activity. The first component of the criminal justice and perhaps the most important within the system is law enforcement. This aspect of the criminal justice system includes

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    The criminal justice system is a system of law enforcement that is involved in prosecuting, sentencing, and punishing those who have committed a criminal offence. When every member of society is aware of their individual rights and the laws enforced, the criminal justice system is very effective, but when a contributor to society is mentally insane and commits a criminal offence everything changes. In Frontline’s A Crime of Insanity, a twenty-six year old psychology student, Ralph Tortoricci, walked

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    Racial Disparity and the Criminal Justice System The unfair and unjust of racial disparity within the criminal justice system has been an ongoing topic. This topic is important as it can enlighten people with research that racism and discrimination still exist in America although the law states African Americans are free. This may be able to shape previous research by introducing new information not mentioned before and new studies that support the topic. The topic was based on the film 13th: From

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    that those who work as criminal justice personnel are held to a much higher expectation compared to the average day citizen; criminal justice personnel are in charge of enforcing the law, hence breaking the law themselves would be illogical. I am arguing that the discretion given to those who work as criminal justice personnel, such as the police, is necessary in order to entirely exercise the law. In order to argue that discretion is necessary in the Canadian Criminal Justice System, I will discuss

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    and try to help them persevere. Prevention is important, but it is also important to know what the Canadian Criminal Justice System is doing to protect the victims. This paper discusses intimate partner violence (IPV) and the protection of victims by the Canadian Criminal Justice System. Protection orders, services, Criminal Justice System responses, and victim responses to the Criminal Justice System will all be examined. Couples who are in “intact relationships and possibly living together” are

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