CRJU 101 Lecture 1: Lecture Notes
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The criminal justice system: consists of a wide array of actors and agencies, constitutes an integration of law enforcement agencies, the courts, the corrections system, victim services, and members of the community. Organizing neighborhood cleanup days and watch programs. In these programs, community residents work with criminal justice agencies to determine priorities, goals, and solutions to community crime problems: functions through a bureaucracy levels within the system that include specialized tasks. Due to the complexity of the system, it can only function even remotely property through bureaucracy: attorney general head of the us justice department. Around 2. 4 million employees in the us justice department; billion a year to pay them all. Societies response to crime: after the crime has occurred, investigation of criminal activity, prevent crime from happening, maintain order and provide community service. Interdisciplinary endeavor: criminology, emergency management, forensic science, homeland security, law and legal studies, security administration, victimology.
