Similarities And Differences In The Criminal Justice System

Criminal Justice Systems
The world is what it is today because of the criminal justice systems that are created around the world to enforce the law for the greater cause of accountability and responsibility in the whole world as a community. Criminal Justice system is the term used to explain and understand all of the agencies whose goal is to control crime. It consists of police, courts, and corrections agencies, which act to enforce the law, adjudicate suspects, and deal with convicted offenders (Harry R. Dammer and Jay S. Albanese, 2011). There are similarities and differences in criminal justice system across the globe which make it interesting to compare systems and issues in criminal justice. Comparison are mostly carried out to benefit
The kind of procedural system practice in United states is the adversarial and popular which is justice of peace; in England they practice the adversarial and popular which in this case is the magistrates; and the lastly, Japan practices the inquisitorial and popular which is the new lay jurors that has been in practice as of 2009. It is important to know that the adversarial system is a set of legal procedures used in common Law countries to determine truth during adjudication whereby the prosecution and defense counsel compete against each other while the judge ensure fairness and adherence to the rules (Harry R. Dammer and Jay S. Albanese, 2011). The inquisitorial system is commonly associated with Civil Law system and has touched every system in the world to a state that without it, criminal justice professional would be unable to conduct any serious criminal investigations. During investigation of instance, in United States the police send crime information to federal, state, or local prosecutor. In England, on the other hand, the police or, in rare cases, individuals send charges to crown prosecution service. More, as experienced in Japan, the police transfer cases to prosecutor for investigation; and it is important to know that tor can dismiss case before trial. Another vital incidents of the judicial systems of these countries are the right to counsel, the right to remain silent, the right to trial by jury, and right to bail. In United States criminal procedures these rights differs from the other countries in which the right to counsel is allowed at point where suspect is taken into custody; the right to be silent is a privilege for the accused to remain silent throughout all the steps of process; there is the right to trial by jury in all felony cases; and bail is allowed but can be