Session Date
Lesson Topic
Crime in America
Lesson Outline
The three goals of criminal justice are doing justice, controlling crime, and preventing crime. The dual court system in the U.S. provides for both a national system and state systems of criminal justice that enforce laws, try cases, and punish offenders.
Criminal justice is a system made up of a number of parts or subsystems—police, courts, and corrections. Exchange is a key concept for the analysis of criminal justice processes.
The four major characteristics of the criminal justice system are discretion, resource dependence, sequential tasks, and filtering. The processing of cases in the criminal justice system involves a series of decisions by police officers, prosecutors, judges, probation officers, wardens, and parole board members, and can be divided into thirteen steps spread throughout the stages of law enforcement, adjudication, and corrections.
Criminal justice is a system made up of a number of parts or subsystems—police, courts, and corrections. Exchange is a key concept for the analysis of criminal justice processes.
The four major characteristics of the criminal justice system are discretion, resource dependence, sequential tasks, and filtering. The processing of cases in the criminal justice system involves a series of decisions by police officers, prosecutors, judges, probation officers, wardens, and parole board members, and can be divided into thirteen steps spread throughout the stages of law enforcement, adjudication, and corrections.
Assignment
Quiz 14 and lecture
Session Minutes
180
Minutes Student Attended
180
Lesson Comments
The three goals of criminal justice are doing justice, controlling crime, and preventing crime. The dual court system in the U.S. provides for both a national system and state systems of criminal justice that enforce laws, try cases, and punish offenders.
Criminal justice is a system made up of a number of parts or subsystems—police, courts, and corrections. Exchange is a key concept for the analysis of criminal justice processes.
The four major characteristics of the criminal justice system are discretion, resource dependence, sequential tasks, and filtering. The processing of cases in the criminal justice system involves a series of decisions by police officers, prosecutors, judges, probation officers, wardens, and parole board members, and can be divided into thirteen steps spread throughout the stages of law enforcement, adjudication, and corrections.
Criminal justice is a system made up of a number of parts or subsystems—police, courts, and corrections. Exchange is a key concept for the analysis of criminal justice processes.
The four major characteristics of the criminal justice system are discretion, resource dependence, sequential tasks, and filtering. The processing of cases in the criminal justice system involves a series of decisions by police officers, prosecutors, judges, probation officers, wardens, and parole board members, and can be divided into thirteen steps spread throughout the stages of law enforcement, adjudication, and corrections.
Session Hours
3.00
Hours Attended
3.00
Entry Status
Review Status
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