Thesis: People gain understanding of the world through its representations, otherwise known as its image. As technology evolved, the media and its reports expanded people’s sights to the different sub communities and the roles people played within society. Crime became a highly publicized subject. This can be seen from the countless TV shows, movies, and political debates have been dedicated to crime. Furthermore, people became fascinated with the serial killers and rapists that laced the pages of newspapers. Consequently, the criminal justice system is under the constant surveillance, their every move being watched. People wait in the shadows for the next gruesome crime. With this being said, many aspects of the criminal justice system are unpublicized. This is due to the fact that they are not as interesting. Consequently the …show more content…
Furthermore this impacts the entire criminal justice system. These expenses are from taxing resources at each stage of the arrest, adjudication, incarceration, and post-release supervision process. With all of these arrests police departments are making, they must wonder how many deals and shipments of drugs that they have not caught. Drug lords and dealers have evolved new techniques to transport their drugs. This can be illustrated in the 1990’s discoveries of cross border tunnels. Since 1990, over one-hundred tunnels have been discovered; some found forty feet below the surface. These tunnels mainly come from Mexico. Consequently, while police can arrest the small time drug dealers it is harder for them to find the source of the crime, which is the drug lord. In addition, even if the drug lord is found there is a hierarchy of people. This means that there is always someone waiting in the shadows to take control of the business. The drug market will always be alive because of the people that are addicted to the substances and the profit that one can make from selling drugs to