Flawed Criminal Justice System

A Flawed Criminal Justice System

Flawed Criminal Justice System in the United States (Name (Instructor (Date (Course

The Criminal Justice System of the country is under scrutiny as many researchers believe the inadequacy of the system to punish law offenders . Ideally , the justice system is there to defend society from its own people who violate specific laws that govern social and peace . But it has been criticized for much other reason . One of which is that the criminal justice system is integrally corrupt and flawed

One major flaw of the criminal justice

system in the country is that it demands a category of financial capability , or else you can get out of jail . It is very easy to get out of your term in jail . If one can afford the bail , then less time in prison will be charged . The more money one has , the less time he or she has to stay in prison to avail of the crime he committed . Such is the case of many prominent and influential families in the country . But judging from statistics , many people convicted with crimes are more or less poor to afford the standardized bail in the justice courts . Judge who process the hearings are also a major factor in determining how much would one criminal pay to get out of jail , and if one person is lucky , the judge may sympathized with his /her situation in terms of his /her finances , and bail conditions are much less than the average . This is one of the major flaws in the criminal justice system , money matters

You can get a person out of the ghetto , but you can not remove the ghetto out of him . The aphorism mentions how much the environment one person lives affects his behaviour towards society and the people Another problem criticized in the criminal justice system is the increasing recidivism rate of prisoners in the country . This explains former criminals not just going to jail once , but gets arrested for either the same crime or a new one . The question that remains is whether the criminals are punished enough for the crimes committed , becomes reality persists that criminals return to prison after some time . As cited in Scott (2004 ) study , about 1500 men in the Chicago metropolitan alone returns to their communities each month . The ineffectiveness of the criminal justice system to rehabilitate the ex-convicts into leading a more productive and moral life is being questioned . There are about 44 percent of ex-prisoners rearrested after being released from prison and that says how much inadequate the penalties for law offenders in the country

There are many factors contributing to the rising number of criminals every year , majority of which due to the influence brought about by drugs and the selling and retailing of drugs . As mentioned by Henslin there is the prevailing medicalization of human problems ' caused by several mood elevators ' such as alcohol , drugs , nicotine and marijuana . Using these drugs has serious effects on...