Essays on American Criminal Justice System

Criminal Profiling    When we hear the term ‘criminal profiling’ we often think that it is the police, stereotyping, and generalizing a whole minority community to fit the criteria associated with a criminal description. There are more things that we should bring into factor when analyzing…

The studies surrounding tort law tend to be predominantly based around negligence along with considerations regarding blame and fault. This means situations where compensation can be achieved in other ways are often overlooked. As of today, liability for negligence currently involves considerations of fault pertaining…

Our criminal justice system in America has offered the suggestion that being black is a crime. Each case that involved a police officer killing an unarmed black person has left society with an empty void every time the defender was determined not guilty. This social…

A Problem with the American Justice System Just Mercy is Bryan Stevenson’s personal record of his career as, essentially, a guardian (more specifically, a legal aid) to those discriminated against by the law. Off the bat, readers are informed about his history briefly, and we…

Police brutality has been going for a very long time. “Numerous studies document stark racial disparities in police maltreatment, finding that black boys and men are disproportionately subject to excessive and sometimes deadly police force, even after accounting for situational factors of the encounter and…

The Criminal Justice System is the complex body of law enforcement that works to keep a country’s citizens well protected. Within the system, there are many entities that work to protect the rights of everyone involved in a case. Due process and crime control are…

Crime is the number one thing you see on the “Breaking News” portion of the news, specifically gun violence. Whether it be a drive by or a shooting in a school done by someone outside or by one of their very own students. Firearm brutality,…

Anonymous Juries The American criminal justice system has traditionally made the identities and addresses ofjurors known to the judge, the prosecution, and the defense. That tradition began to erodewith the unprecedented sua sponte trial court decision to use an anonymous jury in the caseof United…

Death Penalty – A Persuasive Argument What is the purpose of the Criminal Justice system? Is it an eye for an eye or is it reformation and punishment? Capital Punishment does not deter crime, it is a crime and an expensive one at that. I…

The Impact of Historical Events and Shifting Social Paradigms on the Evolution of the Criminal Justice System Abstract Historical events and shifting social paradigms have continued to influence the development of the criminal justice system. The rising crime rates and the increase in the incidence…