Ensuring Justice

Ensuring Justice

Derrica Wright

November 20, 2014

Professor Charles

Ensuring Justice

Are the American Criminal Courts effective at ensuring justice? According to criminal law justice is the proper administration of the law; the fair and equitable treatment of all individuals under the law. Yes I think that the American courts are somewhat ineffective and effective when ensuring justice. The justice system is a tad bit harsh when sentencing offenders. All of us rely on the criminal justice system to keep us safe and maintain order. We expect it to meet the fundamental aims of our criminal laws to separate the guilty from the innocent, to incapacitate truly dangerous individuals, and to promote deterrence and retribution for those who violate law. We also expect the criminal law and the criminal justice system to be fair and even-handed and to rehabilitate criminal offenders, and we expect the criminal justice system to assist offenders who completed their sentences to reenter the community as productive citizens and to avoid commission of crimes in the future. Our current national policy on crime prevention, control and punishment, however, is overbalanced toward punishment. The result is that we imprison offenders, particularly nonviolent offenders, in number and length that are out of proportion to the rest of the world, largely as a result of the broad use of mandatory minimum sentences. http://www.abnet.org/poladv/transition/2008deccrimjustice.pdf. The Fourth Amendment of the United States constitution prohibits unreasonable search and seizures stating, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable caused, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the places to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.” The law enforcement community repeatedly

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