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Introduction to crim

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Procedural Fairness Processes by which decisions that feel fair are made is a vitual component of our American justice system
Procedural justice crucial to effective criminal justice practices and helps to ensure the legitimacy of justice organizations and their acceptance by the people they serve
Criminal activity been with us since the dawn of history
individual rights accompanied by a dramatic increase in reported criminal activity
social disorganization increased criminality
New York times summarizes the situation well saying "the internet virtual superways have supplanted brick and mortar streets
Individual rights versus public order draws on historical developments that shaped our legal system and our understanding of crime and justice
civil rights led to recognition of fundamental personal rights that previously been denied illegally to many people on the bias of race,ethnicity,gender sex differences or disabilities
Individual rights advocate those who seek to protect personal freedoms and civil rights within society and especially within the criminal justice process
social order Those who suggest that under certain circumstances involving criminal threats to the public safety the interst of society especially crime control
public order advocates take precedence over individual rights will be called
word justice is powerful
however justice is an elusive term
justice might mean and what form it .might eventually take
justice can be a ambiguous term for politicians, public speakers
civil justice one component of social justice concerns itself with fairness in relationships between citizens government agencies and businesses in private matters
criminal justice refers to aspects of social justice that concerns violations of the criminal law
Administration of justice "truth of action" within the process
Criminal justice systems consists 3 core components 1 police 2 courts 3 corrections
Justice system work together by design to achieve the wider purpose we have been calling justice
consensus model hence the systems perspective on criminal justice generally encompasses a point of view
system calls to mind a near perfect form of social organization
conflict model provides another approach to the study of American criminal justice
Criminal justice nonsystem Agencies often conflict and pressures for success, promotion, pay increases and general accountability fragment the efforts of the system as a whole
Justice is the ethical philosophical idea that people should be treated fairly, properly reasonably by the law agents that carry out the law
Public must trust, believe in the authority of the police
21st century policing report also states that people are more likely to obey the law when they believe authority of these enforcing the law is legitimate
Reimagine policy suggest that the police should intitate this change process because the enforcement arm of the government they weild the bulk of the power in these interactions
We should go one step further by also reimaging police training
cultural competence ability to understand appreciate interact with people from culturals or belief systems
Contact hypothesis idea that controlled contact between of two opposing groups tends to reduce tensions between them
system diverse of functions and it levels are linked closely enough for the term system
due process means procedural fairness
bill of rights due process is supported by the fourth. fith, sixth and fourth amendment and itself supported by the fith
what we have been calling rights are open to interpretation
Gideon and Wainwright supreme court decided at some point in history to recognize them in cases brought before it
before gidion court appointed attorneys for defendants unable to afford their own counsel were practically unknown
After the Gideon decision court appointed counsel became commonplace and measures were instituted in jurisdiction across the nation to select attorneys fairly for idisent defendants
state is required to praise counsel
Gideon be
Created by: Abigail Biggins
 

 



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