SOCL 3371 Study Guide - Train Robbery, Tachisme, Cesare Beccaria
Document Summary
The criminal justice system: criminal justice system courts, & corrections) charged with protecting the public, maintaining order, enforcing the law, identifying transgressors, bringing the guilty to justice, & treating criminal behavior. A loosely organized collection of agencies (generally, law enforcement: criminology. Study of the origin, extent, & nature of crime in society. History of criminal justice in the us: crime rates may actually have been much higher in the 19th & early 20th centuries than it is today. Revolutionary war guerilla warfare, law was barely formed at this time. Civil war & the ku klux klan groups of white men would patrol & break up any group that had weapons & slave discretion. This formed into the kkk & then turned main focus to white supremacy. Feuds in appalachia & the old west family feuds (lack of government) billy the kid, Crime in the 20th century: 1900-1935 saw a sustained increase in criminal activity, depression era outlaws.
