Criminal Justice and Corrections
Corrections
In the following paper I will be elaborating information on an evaluation I have done on the past, present and the future trends of corrections in the criminal justice system. Corrections has made a lot of positive changes since the time it was establish, which it was in early 1900’s. The reason I selected this component is because I believe that is very interesting how corrections has improved throughout the years. I will be explaining on the changes that had been made to make correction a lot better now. The budgetary and managerial impact that future trends will be discuss, but also on the other components of the criminal justice system.
United States criminal justice system comes from the European System that England, Holland and France used at the time when we first had the colonists come in to this country. In the early years of the criminal justice system, they were very straight forward on punishment. They would take you in front of the town and have your court out in the open. The town’s people then would hear what you were charged with and then decide your punishment. If you committed a crime sure as, steeling or fighting they would punish you by whipping, cutting off different parts of the body like ears and fingers. Punishments like these were taken place outdoors in front of the town so you were known as a criminal. For crimes as murder, and rape those were more sever and the person was executed by hanging. All of these practices of punishment were in hope that others would not do the same. They did not have a back then they didn’t have a way of knowing if you were mentally ill and need help to prevent you from acting out in a violent way nor did they know how to conduct a crime investigation to conduct a proper crime investigation. Imprisonment of a person wasn’t common in the early 1900”s. But as corrections system start to create prisons, they weren’t like the common prison we have now, nor the rules and laws were the same. The
In the following paper I will be elaborating information on an evaluation I have done on the past, present and the future trends of corrections in the criminal justice system. Corrections has made a lot of positive changes since the time it was establish, which it was in early 1900’s. The reason I selected this component is because I believe that is very interesting how corrections has improved throughout the years. I will be explaining on the changes that had been made to make correction a lot better now. The budgetary and managerial impact that future trends will be discuss, but also on the other components of the criminal justice system.
United States criminal justice system comes from the European System that England, Holland and France used at the time when we first had the colonists come in to this country. In the early years of the criminal justice system, they were very straight forward on punishment. They would take you in front of the town and have your court out in the open. The town’s people then would hear what you were charged with and then decide your punishment. If you committed a crime sure as, steeling or fighting they would punish you by whipping, cutting off different parts of the body like ears and fingers. Punishments like these were taken place outdoors in front of the town so you were known as a criminal. For crimes as murder, and rape those were more sever and the person was executed by hanging. All of these practices of punishment were in hope that others would not do the same. They did not have a back then they didn’t have a way of knowing if you were mentally ill and need help to prevent you from acting out in a violent way nor did they know how to conduct a crime investigation to conduct a proper crime investigation. Imprisonment of a person wasn’t common in the early 1900”s. But as corrections system start to create prisons, they weren’t like the common prison we have now, nor the rules and laws were the same. The
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