Position paper



Position paper

Introduction

According to my analysis and thinking, I am in the favor of the bill that is being passed in the congress regarding the national criminal justice commission. This paper discusses the criminal justice in a broader sense.

Statement

The world is having an upward trend in criminal actions and the rate of crimes. Several attempts by the government and law enforcing agencies are put into the process, but the society has not yet experienced a decline in criminal actions. We have discussed a number of causes for the increase in crimes rate like, social influences, family structure, financial crises, ignorance and many others. Painless executions are observed in the corrections of the United States criminal justice system. Several states in the country have condemned death sentences to life sentences, on humanitarian grounds. This has multiple effects on the society, as previously executions were conducted in front of the community, to give them a lesson and put an example out of criminals. People were aware of their ends, if they get involved in criminal actions. This intimidation resulted in crime control, in the society. However, criminal justice system, with its all component is trying to reduce the crime rate, yet there is a lot to be done. Law enforcement and criminal justice have prevailed in US since last 200 years. These agencies play an important role in managing the law as well as the policies related to it. These agencies have certain policies and rules which are needed to be followed. They help and protect our society. Similarly, criminal justice is an important part of our society which includes court and corrections, law enforcement and corrections. Laws are rules which need to be followed and if not penalties can be imposed on them. Law enforcement is a source of guidance for the concerned authorities, which must follow it. The future of the society enormously depends on the field of criminal justice (Bazemore, 1999).

National Criminal justice commission

State crimes have historically resulted in more injury and death than traditional street crimes such as robbery, theft, and assault. Consider that genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes during the 20th century in Afghanistan, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cambodia, Chechnya, Chile, Darfur, Germany, Iraq, Palestine, Rwanda, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, and other regions claimed the lives of tens of millions of people, and millions more were rendered homeless, imprisoned, and psychologically and physically damaged through the illegal or socially harmful actions of governments. Yet, despite the gravity, costs, and extensiveness of crimes committed by states, few government officials, and fewer average citizens in developed countries, think much about these offenses or do anything to prevent or control these grievous harms. Further, these depredations remain understudied relative to conventional street crimes in the field of criminology and criminal justice. Over the last two decades, while considerable theoretical, conceptual, and empirical progress has been made by criminologists to better specify the nature, extent, distribution, causal variables, and issues associated with state violence, there remain two primary areas of debate ...