Violence

CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND VIOLENCE PROTECTION

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Course : Criminology

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Criminal justice is broadly about efforts to prevent crime but at a tertiary-level . In an event that crime has happened , the criminal has to be identified , proved guilty , taken in for correction and released back to the society . The direct approach is therefore seen through deterrence , incapacitation and rehabilitation while the system acts indirectly through effects on social norms . This is in effect a possible way to make the person who committed the crime to avoid

repeating the act as a result of punishment and education through the correction process

While considering the level of crime and violence in the society , there are repeated cases as well as new incidences . Criminal justice generally aims at reducing future incidences by properly dealing with the current ones . Therefore , if a new case emerges , there is always that process to follow in the cycle before the system can be confident to have avoided a repetition . This means that if there are many new cases of different people committing a crime of violence , the system cannot have been effective at preventing them . The crime in the society is however composed of a majority of culprits who have been dealt with before . This indicates two things . First , jails and prisons don 't seem to be working out on their own . The fact that many of the released prisoners get back to jail having committed the same or a different crime indicates the failure...