CRIM 12000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 39: International Criminal Court
7 May 2019
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Neighborhood to neighborhood based on local legal and socio-politico-economic cultures, and with the attitudes and perspectives of the individual community court board member. The community courts do resolve cases faster than do the regular courts, but at a cost of sentencing/outcome variation, even disparity. offender have in the community court proceedings. This kind of informality opens the door to all kinds of potential for abuse bribery, favoritism, racial and ethnic discrimination. We tried this once, and it did not work. Community courts is that processing people through the standard judicial system, is a bad thing. Generally that is true, but it is not always the case. There are times when regular court intervention is useful. The court system is not capable of solving any nations" crime problems. While some proposed reforms can have a positive impact, they should be viewed as nothing more than new ways of holding our fingers in the dike just buying time.
