CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

Sally Monroe

Introduction to Criminal Justice

Seth Kanowitz

Strayer University

September 13, 2009

Criminal Justice System

This paper presents an important issue in criminal justice system, i.e. intimate partner violence. Now that domestic violence was no longer dismissed as a private matter but instead commanded attention as an issue requiring significant societal reform, advocates created an action plan focusing on three urgent tasks: securing resources and shelters for battered women, raising public awareness of the issue, and creating legal protections for protecting women's safety. As a result, the next few decades brought about an explosion of resources and awareness surrounding domestic violence (Fulcher, 2006).

In fact, ...