CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 99: Work Release, United States Constitution, Wingspread
29 Nov 2016
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Cj 101 mid-term exam questions: the three main components that make up the american criminal justice are the police, the courts, and the corrections office. The police are charged with many responsibilities including keeping the peace, arresting people who violate the law, combating crime, preventing crime, and providing social services like funeral escorts and working crosswalks. The united states has a dual court system meaning that the state and national courts work independently of one another. Courts deal with adjudication, sentencing, and trial with the supreme courts ranking the highest in their respective categories- state or federal. Corrections vary from local and county levels all the way up to the federal correction system. Corrections work to detain people before trial, jail time, intermediate sanctions. Corrections include prisons, jails (holding before trial), supervision, halfway houses, work release programs, supervised activities and more: the main goals of the criminal justice system are doing justice, controlling crime, and preventing crime.
