CRIM 12000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: American Justice, Justice Network, Plea Bargain
29 Apr 2019
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A system is a set of parts coordinated to accomplish a set of uniformly accepted goals. The characteristics of a system include: level of coordination and cooperation. The american justice non-system: overall goals and objectives, shared definitions of success, uniform performance measures, overall management yielding a high. The american justice system is a hodgepodge of uncoordinated institutions run independently by almost every governmental unit. Goal conflict: competing objectives, multiplicity of goals (no overall goals), multiple measures of performance, multiple definitions of success, no overall management, limited coordination, limited cooperation (turf battles). 2 million employed (more than public law enforcement) Plea bargain: horizontal reduce the number of charges, vertical reduce the severity of the charges, lateral case trade offs. Court process: admitting evidence, admitting testimony, procedural control of the case. Roughly1. 2 million active lawyers in the u. s. U. s. has around 40 lawyers/10,000 (3rd highest rate in the world) U. s. has about 10 percent of the world"s lawyers.
