REAL-LIFE CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Real-Life Criminal Justice

Real-Life Criminal Justice

Introduction

The criminal justice system consists of three main parts:

(1) Adjudication (courts)

(2) Law enforcement (police)

(3) 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. In this paper, the terms are defined according to the real-life criminal justice (Singer, 1996).

Difference between Criminologist, Criminalist, and Forensic Science

In law enforcement, the criminalists and criminologist are the main focus. However, the criminologist deals with the nature of the crime and preventions, on the other hand the criminalist deals with the evidence collection, analysis and investigation.

Criminologists are the subject of Criminology. The study of crime and prevention from the crime are two core elements of the Criminology. The job of criminologist is to develop the new theories in order to deal with the root causes of the crime and crime itself. Except these two areas, the criminologists also examine the criminal justice system. The courses of the criminology that they study are:

Juvenile Delinquency

Criminological theories

Punishment and social research

Some of the times, criminologists also investigate demographics for example women and their association with the crime (Sullivan, 1994).

However, the basic concern of the criminologists is with the scientific approach, but this field's concern is on the behavior of society in regarding of criminals, crime, and corrections facilities. The background of the criminologists is academic so from this perspective, Criminologists try to understand that how, what and why the criminal deviated from normal behavior of society. Criminologists provide the types of criminals, and often the profile of crime to Law enforcement. The criminologist comes with creative and innovative ideas to deal with the criminal.

The criminalists deal with the forensic science rather than the science. The dealing method of the forensic science is the use of natural sciences for interpreting and analyzing the hard evidence related to crime. The criminalist refers as a technician of forensic science, but it is not justified to refer them as the criminologist. The criminalists study the physical evidence and clues that are found during the investigation on the spot. For example, bullets, fingerprints, drugs, weapon, blood stain, and other impressions like impression of shoe. By collecting these evidences, the criminalist makes the crime scene. The academic background of Criminalist is from criminal justice, chemistry, biology or forensic science (Renzetti & Goodstein, 2001).

The tools and the methods that uses in the forensic science are based on natural sciences. Two tools are involved in the natural sciences explanation and investigation. The forensic science as an applied science uses the tool of investigation.

White Collar Crime and Blue Collar

White Collar Crime

An integrated theory of white-collar crime attempts to explain such crime by bringing together several different theories or by invoking multiple levels of analysis, or both. The number of different theories or levels, and the formality, with which the relationship between the theories or variables on different levels of analysis is posited, ...