Assignment on Criminal Justice - Principles and Behaviors

Running head: CRIMINAL JUSTICE 1
Criminal Justice
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE 2
Criminal Justice
Integrity refers to the reliability of moral principles and behaviors shown by an individual
who associates with others in performing contrasts and exhibits honesty in the liberation of trust.
Authority is the power executed by an individual concerning his command or jurisdiction.
Whereas discretion of power refers to the power granted by laws to a high official, ahead of state
among others to exercise individual discretion based on particular conditions (Molander,
2016). They are similar in that they are applied in the justice process. However, the difference is
that integrity is consistent, authority is exercised based on one’s command while discretion of
power may differ based on the prevailing situation.
When addressing an adult defendant, the role of integrity in the aspect of criminal justice
is that it is the main prerequisite that established a functional and effective system of resolving
legal disputes and thus safeguards the defendant’s human rights as it facilitates transparency
(Dixon, 2016). Authority advocates for appropriate and effective implementation of misconduct
policy urgencies concerning the search of evidence, investigate period and information offered to
the public prosecutors. Moreover, the discretion of power allows for the contradiction of rules by
authorities in the criminal justice system subject to the case having obligatory sentences. Thus,
discretion of power results in a disparity. Besides, the discretion of power based on the
jurisdiction allows the prosecutor to review all police referrals and upholds a full responsibility
of the court intake screening. Hence, based on the discretion that the front-end juvenile decision
procedures involve, it does not consider the rules of the court and the prosecutor thus affecting
the court operations on how minors are handled.
When addressing a juvenile defendant, Miller, Montgomery in 2016 advocated that
“children are constitutionally different from adults and thus must be given opportunity to show