Criminal Trends

CJA 484 Criminal Justice Trends Corrections

CJA 484

Criminal Justice Trends: Corrections

Criminal justice can be considered a system of practices and institutions. The government directed system is intended for maintaining control socially, mitigating and deterring crime, or sanctioning those who violate laws with criminal penalties and rehabilitation efforts. The criminal justice system is made up of three sections: (1) Legislative (create laws); (2) adjudication (courts); and (3) corrections (jails, prisons, probation and parole) (Ariestechsoft, 2013).

In criminal justice, particularly in North America, correction, corrections, and correctional, are umbrella terms describing a variety of functions typically carried out by government agencies, and involving the punishment,...