CRIMJ 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Juvenile Court, Grand Jury, Preliminary Hearing
31 Aug 2016
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Three components (also known as sub-systems: law enforcement, courts, correction. Why it is called a system: shared goal: public safety, systematic: offenders enter one part and exit another. Interdependence: rely on one part for others to function: each operates under the same law. Juvenile justice system: the system through which juvenile offenders are processed. Juvenile courts, detention, and correction agencies exist and adjoined to adult correction agencies. The juvenile justice system and adult system varies. Investigation: arrest, booking (fingerprints and mug shot) Herbert packer (1968): crime control due process model. Crime control: want to focus on catching the criminal. Samuel walker: wedding cake model, 4 layers: celebrated cases (oj simpson, michael brown). Famous cases that are the least frequent: heavy duty felony, light weight felony: does not grab much media attention (drug dealers, misdemeanors. Additional roles in crimj: academic discipline, social science, setting for controversial issues, complementary field of study to criminology, collection of individuals, force.
