CRM 105- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 24 pages long!)
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Courts: structure and participants, defendants, jurors, judges, etc, pretrial activities, tend to be problematic, sentencing, judicial bias, prosecutorial lawlessness, capital punishment cases, bias jurors, rely on our peers for non-judgmental sentencing, defense council. If you get out on parole, you serve the rest of your sentence on parole. Institutional violence: violence of inmate on inmate, violence of inmate on staff, violence of staff on inmate. Whether you view the criminal justice system as a system depends on your viewpoint. Consensus model: conservative criminologists, supports that the criminal justice system is a system. Cooperation from all the 3 categories, work in harmony, work together smoothly to achieve social justice. Conflict model: argue that the goals of the individual franchises disrupt the overall goal, there is conflict, challenges the interest of the courts, police, and corrections. Crime control thesis: the efficiency of the criminal justice system to control crime at all costs. This applies to those who side with the consensus model.
