CCJ 3024 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Arrest Warrant, Grand Jury, Public Trial
Document Summary
Individual rights advocate: one who seeks to protect personal freedoms within the process of criminal justice. Public-order advocate: one who believes that under certain circumstances involving a criminal threat to public safety, the interests if society should take precedence over individual rights. Justice: principle of fairness, ideal of moral equity. Social justice: ideal embracing all aspects of civilized life that is linked to notions of fairness and to cultural beliefs about right/wrong. Criminal justice: the law of criminal procedure and the array of procedures having to do with the enforcement, refers to the aspect of social justice that concern violations of the criminal law. Administration of justice: performance of activities (detection, pretrial release, prosecution) of accused persons or criminal offenders. Consensus model: cj perspective that assumes that the system"s components work together in harmony to achieve justice. Conflict model: cj perspective that the system"s components function primarily to serve their own interests, there is more conflict among agencies than cooperation.
