What is the role of a criminal justice professional? There are numerous amounts of roles that a criminal justice practitioner plays. Depending on which section of the criminal justice system you are certified in‚ your studies ensures your specialty in your career field. In this particular essay‚ we will focus on the key social issues contributing to the service of the criminal justice practitioners‚ the role of the criminal justice professionals serving needs‚ and how the key social issues impact
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"The Youth Criminal Justice Act is a piece of Canadian legislation...that determines the way in which youths are prosecuted under Canada’s criminal justice system." The act was implemented April 1‚ 2003‚ after "7 years‚ 3 drafts‚ and more than 160 amendments." The clearly stated purpose of the Youth Criminal Justice Act is "protection of the public through crime prevention‚ rehabilitation‚ and meaningful consequences (s.3(1)(a)(I-iii))." For a better understanding on whether the courts were following
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people that make up our society. For criminal justice practitioners these people can be broken up in to two groups the law abiding citizens and the criminals. The role of the criminal justice practitioner can at time be simple for example: when it comes to the law abiding citizen the role is to serve and protect. But when it comes to criminal the role of the criminal justice practitioner can become complex. In this paper I will attempt to explore the criminal justice professional’s role in fulfilling
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Critical Issues in Criminal Justice: CJ505 Professor: Dr. Ronald Glensor Unit One Assignment: Issues Related to Law Enforcement Agencies (Police Discretion) By Edward M. Hobbs August 11‚ 2014 Introduction In this unit it is asked that writer analyze one of the listed issues that were provided in the instructions. The paper will attempt to describe the pros and cons of the effects of Police Discretions have on law enforcement. In law enforcement the general public
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Many people are familiar with the T.V. show NCIS and with the character Abby. Yet‚ most people don’t really understand the all the aspects of forensics and think that it would be an easy job. But in reality‚ forensic science involves so much more. Forensics is job that varies from day to day. This paper describes the job of being a Forensic Scientist; in terms of salary‚ outlook‚ day to day activity‚ and education need for being a forensic scientist. The wages for forensic scientist are competitive
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plays a major part in all facets of U.S. society. Increased attention on criminal justice issues and criminal justice administration by the media creates opportunities and threats to the status quo of criminal justice policies and actions. Even though there is a foundation for the accurate and ethical reporting of news about the criminal justice system‚ the influence of the media on criminal justice and the theories of justice makes society biased. because the significance of political bias in reporting
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major in the past few months. They have been from Graphic Design to Criminal Justice to Cyber Security but the career that I chose to do this my life about is Criminal Justice‚ in this career the Criminal Justice system has to deal with a lot of stuff that has to do with Psychology with these characteristics being such as psycho-dynamic‚ cognitive‚ behavioral‚ intelligence and personality. All of these can come to mind to a criminal
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Pursuing Criminal Justice Paper Maria Torres CJA/483 July 28‚ 2011 Sean Adams Pursuing Criminal Justice Paper Justice to me is that each person is treated fairly no matter the age‚ gender‚ and race. No person is above the law who ever commits a crime should be pay the consequences for his or her action. Punishment should be fair and sentencing should depend on the criminal conduct as judged by the law. Justice in law enforcement officers during and off hour should treat individual and offenders
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Criminal Justice Final Review Ch 8 Jurisdiction- a court’s legal power to hear particular kinds of cases Court of General Jurisdiction- a court that can hear nearly any type of case Court of Limited Jurisdiction- a specialty court that can hear only cases of a certain type En Banc- an appeals case presided over by a larger than usual panel of judges (more than three) Appellate Brief- a document containing legal arguments in an appellate case‚ submitted to a court by attorneys for
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Criminal justice professionals have many roles and responsibilities when it comes to public safety. In this criminal justice professionals have the job of dealing with various individual and societal needs. In this career field it is not easy to treat each case the same way due to the different individual and societal needs. Today we will be discussing the needs of three different types of individuals that criminal justice professionals have to cater to. I chose to write about people with mental
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