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Introduction to Criminal Justice

3 Pages 844 Words August 2015

Criminal justice is the system of practices and institutions of governments directed at upholding social control, deterring and mitigating crime, or sanctioning those who violate laws with criminal penalties and rehabilitation efforts(1). In most cases people who study this usually become anything that has to do with the law and helping take down criminals. Jobs which can come from studying criminal justice include: Police Officer, FBI Agent, Barrister, CIA agent and many more. Teaching criminal justice is very important because we need people in the world willing to risk their lives to protect the lives of others especially when terrorism is rising in the world(4). Sadly the people who risk their lives to help the human race don’t get a lot of recognition when they are actually the real heroes of the world unlike the celebrities that get all the attention (3). For example the salary that the people who do the dangerous jobs get is way too low for everything they do (2).
This field has been evolving every year to make the horrific jobs that the people do easier and safer. But most of the times we will keep stuff from the past, because there is no point in changing the things that worked in the past if they still work now. One of the things that haven’t changed is the Miranda Rights that are read to anyone being interrogated while in custody by the police for a crime that they committed. It doesn’t always mean you committed a crime if you are being read the Miranda Rights it’s just mandatory to have them read to you whenever you are arrested. Also not all crimes are the same some could be called misdemeanors which are not as serious as some of the other bigger crimes. Usually after every arrest you will be given a summons to appear at court for a trial for whatever you have committed. If you know you are guilty of something and know that there is a lot of evidence against you already it is best if you just take a plea bargain t...

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