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Chapter Fourteen The Criminal Justice System

This chapter provides an overview of the Criminal Justice System, including its agencies (police, courts, and corrections) and their roles in apprehending, adjudicating, sanctioning, and treating criminal offenders. It explores topics such as police enforcement, court structure, prosecution and defense, corrections, and the process of justice. The chapter also discusses concepts of justice, the rule of law, and different models of criminal justice.

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Chapter Fourteen The Criminal Justice System

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  1. Chapter FourteenThe Criminal Justice System

  2. The Criminal Justice System • What is the Criminal Justice System? • The agencies of government—police, courts, and corrections—that are responsible for apprehending, adjudicating, sanctioning, and treating criminal offenders. • Police • Corrections • Judicial

  3. The Criminal Justice System • Police and Law Enforcement • Police and Force • Community Policing

  4. The Criminal Justice System • The Criminal Court System • Court Structure • The Supreme Court • Prosecution and Defense • Adversary system • Criminal prosecution • Prosecutor • Defendant • Convictability

  5. The Criminal Justice System • The Criminal Court System • Prosecution and Defense • Criminal defense • Defense attorney • Right to counsel • Public defender • Pro bono

  6. The Criminal Justice System • Corrections • Probation • Incarceration • Correctional Institutions • Jail • Prison • Truth-in-Sentencing

  7. VIDEO: Nightline: Corrections

  8. The Criminal Justice System • Corrections • Parole • Physical and mental problems • Effect on communities • Reentry and crime

  9. The Criminal Justice System

  10. The Criminal Justice System • The Process of Justice • Initial Contact • Investigation • Arrest • Custody • Complaint/Charging • Preliminary Hearing/Grand Jury • Information

  11. The Criminal Justice System • The Process of Justice • Arraignment • Bail or Detention • Plea Bargaining • Adjudication • Disposition

  12. VIDEO: Courtney Love

  13. The Criminal Justice System • The Process of Justice • Postconviction Remedies • Appeal • Correctional Treatment • Release • Postrelease/Aftercare

  14. The Criminal Justice System • The Process of Justice • Criminal Justice Assembly Line, Packer • “an assembly line conveyor belt down which moves an endless stream of cases, never stopping, carrying them to workers who stand at fixed stations and who perform on each case as it comes by the same small but essential operation that brings it one step closer to being a finished product, or to exchange the metaphor for the reality, a closed file”

  15. The Criminal Justice System

  16. The Criminal Justice System • Criminal Justice and the Rule of Law • Law of Criminal Procedure • Bill of Rights

  17. VIDEO: Guantanamo

  18. The Criminal Justice System • Concepts of Justice • Crime Control Model • Miranda rights • Exclusionary rule • Due Process Model • Rehabilitation Model • Equal Justice Model • Determinate sentencing • Nonintervention Model • Restorative Justice Model

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