ADMJ 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Crime Prevention, Conflict Resolution, Ordnungspolizei
Document Summary
Overview of the criminal justice system phase > each with their own goals, issues and challenges. Investigation = gathering evidence, identifying offenders, preventing crime. Adjudication = testing the evidence gathered by the police and determining the innocence of the offender. Offender management = when the offender is found guilty, they are supported through these. Police are a kind of social institution. Policing is the different forms/sets of processes with specific social functions, done to keep social order. Police are not found in every society and police organisations and personnel can have a variety of shifting forms. A state-organised specialist police organisation of the modern kind is only one example of policing. E. g of other forms: private investigators, private security guards etc. Gatekeepers of the cjs - able to exercise discretionary powers that either directs offenders or diverts them away from the cjs. Establishment of police in australia unique due to the unique social problems we have.
