Criminal Justice Process

Abstract

The criminal justice process and management provides protection to the public and ensures regulation. Mutually and individually the components of the criminal justice system make efforts to avoid crime, and hold criminal behavior. The criminal justice process executes and evaluates precautionary criminal actions, execute legal actions to protect orders, allocate legal determination of responsibility, enforce sanction support upon the crime of the performer, and grant standard correctional measures for convicted criminals. However, the research identifies the loopholes in the system and provides recommendations for improvements.

Table of Contents

Abstractii

Introduction1

Thesis Statement1

Aims and Objectives2

Discussion2

Police or Authority to Enforce the Law/Arrest2

Stage of the Judicial System3

Stage of Imprisonment8

Conclusion and Recommendations8

References10

Criminal Justice Process

Introduction

A criminal justice administration and organization is fair, sincere, and effectual system. It is one of the most significant institutions of America. Criminal Justice Administration is the organization that is performing and controlling the criminal laws and justice system. It is the institution of governments that directs social control, mitigating and deterring crime, or sanctioning those who infringe laws. It imposes criminal penalties and rehabilitation. The criminal justice organization of United Sates has three main components: The courts, the correctional system, and the police. These components simultaneously play independent part as well as the integrated and interrelated system. The justice system and administration are extremely interactive in dividing power among the court, the correctional system, police, and juvenile justice agency. In the U.S. criminal justice system, those who have been arrested and formally charged with a crime usually go through three phases: the police or law enforcement, and corrections trial or imprisonment.

Police authority or Arrest

Judicial system

Jail or prison

Thesis Statement

There is a significant need for improvements in the criminal justice process in the US.

Aims and Objectives

The aim and objective of this research is to discuss the criminal justice process in the US and provide improvements in the system.

Discussion

Police or Authority to Enforce the Law/Arrest

Typically, a police officer or law enforcement agency like the government does not know who has committed a crime for a citizen to report the incident. In some cases, before a person is formally arrested, there requires a warrant based on probable cause. A neutral judge must approve the order, since it constitutes the legal basis to arrest that person. After the arrest, the person is registered, which usually involves taking photographs, fingerprints and personal information request (White, 1997). If no charges are filed, the defendant goes free. If charges are filed, it is possible that the accused is eligible to participate in an appropriate diversion program, such as alcoholism rehabilitation. However, if the person participates in this type of program and not follow the rules, the accused will continue to process the next stage of the criminal justice system. At this point, the accused passed by both the stage and the judicial police's initial criminal justice system (White, 1997).

The arrest is the detention of the suspect by police officer (which includes the mandatory reporting detainee of the rights), as well as the temporary detention the suspect until formal charges against the ...