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CRIMINAL JUSTICE Terms Quiz

Studying Criminal Justice? This app was designed for you. With over 750 terms set into a vast array of Multipl...

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Studying Criminal Justice? This app was designed for you. With over 750 terms
set into a vast array of Multiple Choice Quizzes, Flash Cards, and a handy
Android sized Dictionary, you will be able to study at your leisure.

Criminal justice is the system of practices and institutions of governments
directed at upholding social control, deterring and mitigating crime, or
sanctioning those who violate laws with criminal penalties and rehabilitation
efforts. Those accused of crime have protections against abuse of
investigatory and prosecution powers.

In the United States, criminal justice policy has been guided by the 1969
President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, which
issued a ground-breaking report "The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society."
This report made more than 200 recommendations as part of a comprehensive
approach toward the prevention and fighting of crime. Some of those
recommendations found their way into the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe
Streets Act of 1968. The Commission advocated a "systems" approach to criminal
justice, with improved coordination among law enforcement, courts, and
correctional agencies. The President's Commission defined the criminal justice
system as the means for society to "enforce the standards of conduct necessary
to protect individuals and the community."

The criminal justice system in England and Wales aims to "reduce crime by
bringing more offences to justice, and to raise public confidence that the
system is fair and will deliver for the law-abiding citizen." In Canada, the
criminal justice system aims to balance the goals of crime control and
prevention, and justice (equity, fairness, protection of individual rights).
In Sweden, the overarching goal for the criminal justice system is to reduce
crime and increase the security of the people.

The criminal justice system consists of three main parts: law enforcement
(police); adjudication (courts); and corrections (jails, prisons, probation
and parole). In a criminal justice system, these distinct agencies operate
together both under the rule of law and as the principal means of maintaining
the rule of law within society.

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