Criminal Justice System Research Paper

Does the criminal justice system work in this glorious country? In some aspects, it clearly does. Such as convicting those who committed murder, or arson, or even rape. However, in most aspects I don’t believe it does. When it comes to the criminal justice system here, it seems as though as a country, we are too quick to convict those and put them in jails and prisons. Not only that, but the criminal justice system has also failed the ones that actually consist of the system. For example, take the case of Officer Stephen Mader of West Virginia. This seems like an insane case, considering both the outcome of the event, and the intentions of Mader. Officer Mader was responding to a call, and came across a 23-year old male, named Ronald “R.J.” …show more content…
The case of Emad Hassan of Yemen. Here we have a young college student, minding his own business, studying in a college in Pakistan, when authorities punched his door in and arrested him and 14 other students. After two months in a local jail, the U.S. military transported him to an Army prison in Afghanistan for interrogation. The Army wanted to know if Hassan had any connection to Al-Qaeda. Thinking his safest bet was to remain as honest as possible, Hassan confirmed that he did. The issue is however, Hassan thought they were talking about the small Yemen town of Al-Qa’idah. Due to a bad translation by our justice system, Hassan served 13 years in potentially the hardest, meanest prison in the world. All due to a bad translation, that our justice system, should have …show more content…
justice system is extremely faulty. When it comes to our police agencies, we need to have a serious morality talk, and establish ground rules. More cases such as Officer Mader’s are popping up across the country, from Officer’s being let go, or too quick to pull the trigger. Potentially we could have monthly psych evaluation for police forces, to try and determine any morality shifts, that may prevent them from protecting the society. When it comes to the courts, as a class, talked about balancing the due process model, and the crime control model. If there was a way, to balance the two, such as many suggestions in our previous discussion post, our court system would be immensely better. With the corrections group, we could establish more officers to local prisons and jails. As well as, a better understanding of who would be on parole and probation. We even could make each facility larger, and close some of the smaller ones, that way the corrections officers would be able to better maintain the facility. The fact that our corrections facilities, “house approximately 1.6 million offenders at any given time,” (P. 35), is absurdly high, and could easily bring the number down if any improvements are made to this failing system that we are currently endorsing. A clear way to also correct this, would be to watch out for those we elect to run the system. They should have pre-cautions, or yearly tests, monthly psych

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