The criminal justice system and process refers to violations of the criminal laws put in place to apprehend and punish violators. The criminal justice system intends to protect the innocent through fair treatment with three main parts in the systems that consist of agencies as law enforcement, courts, and corrections. These agencies work together following the rules of law and maintaining these rules.
The first part of the criminal justice system is policing investigate suspects for any wrong-doing. When the violator is arrested he or she is processed for booking and put in the system. A warrant can be issued for the violator where law enforcement officers can apprehend the suspect for arrest. The main purpose of law enforcement is to protest the public and keep social order. Law enforcement also has the duty to provide emergency and services in protecting the rights, individual freedom, and maintaining order.
The next procedure is the court system. The criminal courts system provides impart and fair trails to ensure due process, decide the violators’ innocence or guilt, decide the cases on imposing a guilty sentence, provide fairness throughout the process, and provide protections of the rights of the individual. The criminal justice personnel have duties by courts to provide fairness, integrity, impartiality, and professionalism in criminal case proceedings.
The courtroom has important people ensuring proper proceedings in the courtrooms as the judge, defense attorney, and prosecutor. The judge has the knowledge of laws and functions to administer legal proceedings and final decisions of the cases.
The court system provides two parties that will argue the case before a judge or jury. The case will go to the most compelling argument of facts compiled in the case. A district
