The Criminal Justice System In The United States

. In the United States, the criminal justice system is an important tool used to provide justice for all. The criminal justice system creates a median for protecting societies innocent civilians and punishing the guilty who committed heinous acts. To follow understand our justice system, we need to look at laws created throughout history that became influential to our modern law as we know it today. For our laws have been adapted from historical societies, whose thoughts and ideas were way before their time. When we look back at history, three laws come to mind that shaped modern law as we know it: The Code of Hammurabi, Roman Law, and the Magna Carta.
The Code of Hammurabi, was formed by King Hammurabi of Babylon, was created to promote