Criminal Justice Assignment 2022

Running head: CRIMINAL JUSTICE
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE1
Introduction
Incarceration is considered to be one of the significant forms of punishment and along
with such rehabilitation for the commission of that offence. The largest prison populace is
considered to be in the United States as they have the highest per-capita rate for incarceration. In
the US criminal law, system is considered to be a concurrent power. The individuals who are
considered to violate the law or any other territorial laws are considered to be placed in certain
territorial prisons and those who violate the federal law relating to United States are considered
to be taken to the federal prisons, which are operated by the Department of Justice in the United
States (Hylton, 2017).
This paper would discuss the fact that once individuals commit a crime they are paying
for such the rest of their lives even if they are considered to have served their time. This
particular paper would discuss such with the help of an article. In conclusion, it would
summarize the points that have been mentioned in the paper.
Discussion
The prison systems in the United States are considered to be under strict authority of the
State and along with such the federal government. The offenders or the perpetrators who are
considered to commit certain crimes, which are less serious, would be sentenced to a shorter jail
term (Kelly, 2018). Therefore, the correctional systems are considered to be federal as well as
state criminal justice system which would be popularly used for referring to certain network of
agencies as they would supervise the individuals in the state of incarceration or rehabilitation
along with certain parole as well as probation (Herman, 2018).

CRIMINAL JUSTICE2
When a judge is considered to hand a sentence to some offender or perpetrator for
someone’s perception as to the reason for going to prison or jail there are certain factors that are
taken into consideration. These are retribution, which signifies that punishing the individual or
the offender for doing something, which would be wrong. Along with such, there would also be
rehabilitation that would signify correcting the problematic behavior of the individual or the
offender who has been involved in crimes and offences. It would also focus on safety and
safekeeping which would signify keeping the threats out of any community and lastly, the
deterrence that would try to make sure that the others would not be scared off breaking any kind
of law in the future by committing any offence that would be against the law (Wennerstrom,
Reilly, Sugarman, Henderson, & Niyogi, 2020).
The prison sentences, which are longer, do not really, work on various fronts as such
would be considered as something arbitrary. There has been various instances, which shows that
the threat relating to the prison time would actually try deterring ex-prisoners from commitment
of certain crimes as the criminals are considered to value the future, which would be less than the
non-criminals. Education on the other hand, also plays a pivotal role as the lesser educated
criminals are considered to be put off by all the harsher sentences (Pfaff, 2018). Therefore, as a
result it is found that most of the individuals who are rational think that they would be
accountable for all the crimes committed by them and such are considered to differ spectacularly
in the perspectives of the individuals. It has been found that none of the sentences are considered
to be too long when it comes to several violent offences. The United States have some of longest
prison sentences and these are considered to have certain cultural values where the extreme
emphasis would be on certain personal responsibility or some other religious beliefs which can
be good as well as evil. The idea for such is considered to have a community, which would have