Maya Young 29 November 2017 Wrongful convictions, flawed evidence procedures, and the death penalty all can compromise the Texas criminal justice system. The United States has the largest prison population in the world. The South is imprisoning more people and at a higher rate and is executing more people. There's more people locked up in Texas than any other state, including California. There are more people in max lockdown, more people in for profit facilities, and more people executed than in any other state.
Offenders don’t realize the reality when reentering society because they aren’t giving the necessaries resources. The reality is how the criminal justice system have label them. When an offender is release from prison their life is over due to the way the criminal justice have develop. Many would concur that there is a problem with strength based. As clearly demonstrated there will always be pros and cons towards an issue.
In the United States of America, there are many systems throughout the government. There is the Department of Health, Department of education, and many more to be listed. One system that often causes controversy is the Department of Correction, this department always raises the question; does our jail/correction system work? The correctional system has flaws and gives some result, however, there are more cases than not that prove the correctional system needs a great deal of improvement. Due to the living conditions and the activity inside of the United States prisons the prison system is looked at as dysfunctional.
INTRODUCTION The United States incarcerates a greater percentage of the population than any country in the world (CBS, 2012). According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics, over 2.3 million adults were incarcerated in federal and state prisons, and county jails in 2013. There are an additional 820,000 people on parole and 3.8 million people on probation (Wagner & Rabuy, 2016) Jail and prison differ primarily in regards to the length of stay for inmates.
While the American Justice System may be flawed in its ways of dealing with conflict, no judicial system can be perfect. Many cases can be highly influenced by race and personal feelings rather than the obvious truth. Because of these racial tensions in the court, having a fair trial between African Americans can be next to impossible. Though some people believe that there is no racism, only a flawed Justice system. Many sources claim that the justice system is, in fact biased when judging a criminal court against African Americans.
Research is an integral part of creating and implementing successful criminal justice policy. Policies grounded in research are being encouraged more than ever in the field of criminal justice. Evidence-based approach to creating policy is extremely important and more than one influential study should be considered as evidence that a certain strategy is successful. Policymakers should require a wide range of information and evaluation before they attempt to create and implement policy (Petrosino & Lavenberg, 2007).
Police have faced armed white people that were threatening to shoot and the worst punishment they were given was arrest. While the criminals were yelling threats towards them, the police were trying to calm them down and get them to put down their weapons for even up to an hour long. There has been similar moments with non white people that were unarmed and causing no harm but still the police chose to shoot the offender for the slightest threat. The police need to keep everyone secure no matter what without considering a person 's ethnicity. Police are supposed to be heroes, grant us safety, and end the day with justice.
Research should always be high in quality in order to produce information that is pertinent outside of the research setting. In the criminal justice setting research explains the connections between things such as police patrol and crime levels; while other associations include exploration, description, and application (Maxfield, & Babbie, 2016). All of the four purposes seek to ensure that the work carried out by law enforcement not only serves the intended purpose but also uses as little resources as possible. Law enforcement proprietors attempt to practice evidenced-based policing to prevent and respond to crime. Thus making it useful to examine the four purposes separately because each has a different effect on how to structure our research (Maxfield, & Babbie, 2016).
1. It’s unfair an often discriminating against race and classes. -The system needs to be fixed in a condition where it treats all it’s offenders equally, and not show favoritism to a single group or treat a single group more harshly than they would another. 2. The Justice system is incarcerating non-violent offenders for unnecessary extensive amounts of time.
If someone can predict the decisions of the justices on the Supreme Court based on the judge's beliefs, then the chance that cases are prejudged is a good idea. An idea is just that, an idea. Everyone has their own beliefs and not everyone believes the same things. “It is impossible to get into the mind of a judge to know whether he decides a certain way because he believes that is what the law requires or because of some bias” (Pollock, 2017, p. 303). On the outside looking in it might seem that a judge made a ruling because it is what they believe in or it could be because that is what the law says.
The law enforcement are given the responsibility to uphold the law to protect the public regardless of race, religion or ethnicity. This is guided by the rules of policing that were set down in our Constitution. The United States law was created to establish a fair treatment of our citizens, to protect and ensure their rights of privacy are not violated against federal, state and local agencies (Hess, Orthmann, Cho, 2015) As member of the State Sheriff’s Association, there are some shared concern regarding the issues of our police officers engaging from various number of detailed pattern or practices of unconstitutional and unlawful conduct. Such as, officer involved in shooting, police brutality, allegations of racial profiling and officers’
Let us break down what justice is; justice is behaviour that is just or fair. So the justice system is the system that enforces the law which involves apprehending the accused, prosecuting the accused, defending the accused, sentencing and punishing the guilty. The justice system makes sure that every citizen is heard for and is helped according to what has happened to them. The criminal justice system today When a person commits a crime there are different levels of punishment and decision making if a person has committed a minor crime like speeding, littering, shoplifting, prostitution, vandalism being drunk, possession of drugs etc.
The Juvenile Justice System: Disabilities and the System On April 20th, 1999, two teenagers, one 17 and one 18, walked into Columbine High School in Colorado and killed 13 people. On February 14th, 2018, 19-year-old Nicholas Cruz walks in to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida and killed 17 people. Societies reaction is how do we prevent it? How do we stop it from being our child’s school?
I personally believe that the criminal justice system should be based on rehabilitation instead of punishing the accused. Suppose, a person accidentally commits a murder, which he/ she did not have any intention to commit, he/she should be treated separately than the other convicts. This is because at the end of the day it was not his/her intention, and it was an accident. In such cases, he/she should be sent to a rehabilitation center.
The requirement that the prosecution prove mens rea means that criminal punishment won’t be applied to a person unless he or she was culpable for his or her act. Culpability arises when the defendant either knew what they were doing or what they were risking, or when they failed to reach a standard of behaviour expected of normal people. For example; Suppose A stabs B, A therefore will be culpable of murder, if his actions were intentional, or manslaughter. However what if A did not know what he was doing? Consider that when A stabbed B he did so under a delusion that he was in fact fighting with a monster of fictional sorts, and that this said delusion was caused by a mental disorder.
