CHAPTER ONE

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CHAPTER ONE

• CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

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Is Crime a Recent Development?

• When have we had the most crime?
• Wild West
• Wyatt Earp
• JamesYounger gang
• Early 1900s
• Charles Pretty Boy Floyd
• John Dillinger
• Ma Barker
• Bonnie and Clyde

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The Beginnings

• Cesare Beccaria
• London Metropolitan Police
• 1950s
• ABA studies
• First use of term criminal justice system

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CJ System Today

• Whats it made of?
• Police
• Courts
• Corrections
• How many?
• How much does it cost?

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Stages in the Criminal Process

• Initial contact
• Investigation
• Arrest
• Whats the BOP?
• Custody
• Charging
• Nolle prosequi
• Preliminary hearing/grand jury
• Arraignment

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More Stages in the Process

• Bail/Detention
• Plea bargaining
• Trial/Adjudication
• Sentencing/Disposition
• Appeal
• Corrections
• Release
• Post-release

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Who Controls What?
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Wedding Cake Model of Justice
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Perspectives on Justice

• Crime Control Perspective
• Rehabilitation Perspective
• Due Process Perspective
• Nonintervention Perspective
• Justice Perspective
• Restorative justice Perspective

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Crime Control Perspective

• Who is the criminal?
• Who is the focus on?
• Deterrence
• Effective sanctions

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Rehabilitation Perspective

• Who is the focus on?
• Whats the real problem?
• How do we fix it?

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Due Process Perspective

• Paramount importance
• What is due process?
• All-powerful State
• Resources
• What happens when they are wrong?
• At what cost?

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Nonintervention Perspective

• Decriminalize
• Divert
• Deinstitutionalize

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Justice Perspective

• No one is different in the eyes of the law
• Robot judge?
• Discretion OR
• Mandatory sentencing
• But this is his 3rd offense!

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Restorative Justice Perspective

• Cant we all just get along
• Bring them back to the community
• Mediation

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Perspectives the War on Drugs

• Crime Control Perspective
• Source control
• Border control
• Police crackdowns
• Justice Perspective
• Mandatory sentences for drug dealers
• Federal Anti-Drug Abuse Act

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War on Drugs (Contd)

• Rehabilitation Perspective
• Drug prevention
• Offender treatment
• Restorative Justice Perspective
• Treatment
• Drug courts
• Nonintervention Perspective
• Why not legalize it?

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CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

• END CHAPTER ONE