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    this week’s class, we learned about the difficult situations that might arise when dealing with the criminal justice system and such things as trauma, mental health illness, and substance misuse. In addition, great emphasis was put on displaying resilience towards these situations in order to ensure that we make our self-care of utmost importance, and to guarantee our success in the criminal justice system (Abramson, 2017, Lecture on Mental disorders, trauma, and substance misuse). Furthermore, the

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    Getting Justice Having prisons should mean having protection for citizens. Well there needs to be some improvements. Prison should be a place where the criminal learns that the crime committed should never have happened. Being a victim of any sort of crime is life changing. These crimes can be life changing in ways that make a person have doubts about all sorts of things in life. Preventing these life changing crimes would be the best way for anyone to feel protected. Crimes happen on a daily a basis

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    broke the law were to be adequately punished and reformed, so that when criminals were done serving time, they would be ready to become contributing members of society. Mandatory minimum sentences, high prison return rates, and overworked and underfunded public defenders are just some of the issues that plague the Criminal Justice System. It is astounding that an alternative has not been sought.Restorative justice, or Circle justice is a discipline system that involves mediation, honest speaking, and

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    When it comes to the criminal justice system, there is often a gray area between what is considered fair and what is just, with these concepts many times having a connection. Furthermore, justice and fairness are subjective and many times individuals’ concept of what is fair or just differ. Throughout a recent court case involving a Stanford University swimmer being charged with rape, that issue became well evident. This case involved a Stanford student, Brock Turner, being charged with sexually

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    Which is more important: legal justice, divine justice, or revenge? In A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle proposes these three similar concepts as interchangeable. In the story, there was a murder and the police force asked Sherlock Holmes, an eccentric genius, to help them solve the case because they were stumped. When Sherlock solves the case and the murder tells his story, the difference between divine justice and revenge start to blur with the legal justice of the story. When this happens

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    with unlawful acts. The role of the criminal justice system is to keep everything fair and safe by regulating the procedures of the law to satisfy the victims and remove the criminals from society. In this world, there is always a need of protection, a shield to make the people feel safe in their environment. Dilemmas in the system become apparent from concerns connecting to the morals of a human being. These morals are embedded into the character of the criminal; in spite of the victims being affected

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    For the past decade justice and injustice have made headlines on social media, news report, and in our community. The current criminal justice system believe criminals should be punish and that the punishment fit the crime innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. Moreover, many people like myself justice means fairness and treating people fairly, without bias or partiality. However, Nowadays as I’ve observed justice seem to only be served to the wealthy, famous, and well liked. It seems

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    The criminal justice system is a complex and often uncoordinated system that operates by enforcing the law and seeking justice across countless jurisdictions. It is comprised of many separate agencies including agencies at the federal, state, and local level. Each agency has its own function and goals while operating at different levels of government. The agencies also represent different concerns and values of the public, creating a fragmented system rather than a monolithic, unified system. A monolithic

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    Criminal Justice vs. Community Justice Crime is defined as an act or omission that the law makes punishable. There are different ways in dealing with crime. One, our current system, is the criminal justice approach. Also known as retributive justice, this system is more offender directed than anything else. The other system, which many people think is better, is the community justice, or restorative approach. The restorative approach is much more victim oriented. There is a debate over which

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    Concerns about convicted felons sharing a neighborhood is a common concern of most individuals, moreover, sharing a neighborhood with a convicted sexual offender with a pedophilia past is of a great concern. The community deserves to live peacefully without fear of their children being harmed by an individual that has been convicted of sexual actions, with a child, dwelling within their neighborhood. However, the convicted individual has served the time ordered by the court as a form of punishment

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