Importance Of National Security

Criminal Justice Today: An Introductory Text for the 21st Century (13th Edition ed.). Retrieved from

Bill C-10 was introduced by the Minister of Justice on the 20th of September 2011. Bill C-10 is also called the Safe Streets and Communities Act but many believe the title is very misleading. The purpose of this Act is to provide Justice for Victims of Terrorism, Amend the State Immunity Act, the Criminal Code, the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, the Youth Criminal Justice Act, the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and Other Acts. This essay will analyze issues that affect the criminal code and provide the strengths and weaknesses of the Bill, and will also provide justification on why or why not the Bill is favouring for Canada to deal with crime and the judicial process.

The author focuses on links between poverty and crime and emphasises the urgent need for further research into the challenges faced by people living in poverty-stricken communities. Such argument is consistent throughout start to finish of his article. One of Wozniaks important emphasises relate to environmental criminology, one that explores how actual criminal events involve interactions between motivated individuals and social, economic, legal and physical surroundings. The passage suggests that factors in environmental criminology should be injected and addressed by peacemaking criminologists as they may aid in understanding links between poverty, crime and the environment. Proposed integration of ideas related to radical criminology may also provide assistance as they take into consideration any social contexts, ultimately providing a great deal of better understanding.

Over the past decades, the United States has seen steady and significant decreases in the national crime rate. However, that is not to say the U.S. is not still experiencing violent and heinous crimes. For instance, teen related murder, something of which only a few years ago seemed to be fairly uncommon but appear now to be on the rise. If one were to inquire about teen murders, they would find no deficiency on the internet or in the newspapers of such stories. Which gives way to the question of what is to be done with them and how to ensure that justice is served to all parties involved.

The Criminal Justice system is one of the most important vessels within society due to its role in ensuring that society is abiding by its laws and holding those who transgress these laws to account. Despite its crucial role in society, it has also been under some scrutiny in regards to how effective it actually is, which results in arguments that it doesn’t properly fulfil its job as a carrier of justice. A focus on the criminal justice system is a subject of interest because it helps us understand the tension within society between individual rights and freedoms. (Schmalleger, F. and Koppel, T, 1999) Thus, this essay will be arguing that the criminal justice system is indeed broken.

Have you ever wondered why the Patriot Act played a big part in history or why it is so important to us? Well the government has compromised our civil liberties through the use of the Patriot Act. They also abused our privacy which wasn’t fair for us. The history of the Patriot Act, the abuse of our rights, and the way everything ended made the Americans feel like they couldn’t trust their government because they felt like they were always being watched. Through the Patriot Act, the law enforcement agencies and the government are given wide optional powers to acquire information not only from suspected people but also from the law-abiding Americans.

What benefits, if any, can a zemiological approach bring to the study of global crime and insecurity? The advancement of globalisation, technological knowledge and global markets have created conditions for global crime and insecurity to flourish. Crime is constantly developing and adjusting across the world. These challenges pose the question of what approach is necessary to combat and prevent global crime and insecurity?

During this era crime prevention program were funded for the community and police put together. This sort of policing is a plan focused on building ties and working closely with the people in our community to identify and settle problems. Community policing also target low level crime and disorder. I feel this current era perspective was formed because Reform Era and Political Era were not in good grace with citizenship. Both eras’ had outstanding records of misconduct and excessive force toward citizens.

Crime is a blemish in almost every society. Criminals and law breakers have been around since biblical times and still haunt societies today. The American Criminal Justice System is in place to attempt to help control criminals. The idea is not to create a perfect society where no crime will be committed, but to contain the crime. Predicting crime is not an easy task, criminal justice officials take many steps to prevent crime from happening.

The future of criminal justice seems cloudy at best in the current environment our society. When taking into account that future, the policy makers in criminal justice must be able to adapt and overcome to be able to make enduring policies that will carry on throughout what appears to be a difficult future. Currently, there are policies being put in place such as body cams for officers due to the “rash” of police violence that has occurred in the last year or so. It is policies such as this that are going to shape our future and the future of our children. There is far too much political and public motivations being injected into the criminal justice policy making process.

The null hypothesis shows there is no evidence that punishing the offender with harsher sentences deter the offender from committing a crime (??). This shows that the government should change the policy of ‘tough on crime’ when the policy has no impact and less and less public support; this out-dated policy should stop being used where instead of the government should stop looking at tackling crime, but finding ways to prevent crime. To prevent crime people have to look at the root of the cause, which can be the inequality distribution of wealth, racism, family violence, and poor parenting, no opportunity of education or jobs. Need for social programs that deter people from crime; especially young adults who tend to fall into the cycle of crime (6,

The current criminal justice system has implemented countless policies that are unsupported or are determined ineffective by research and evaluation. Research and evaluation play an extremely limited role in policy making. Rather than having policy supported by empirical testing our current system promotes policies that are designed to win the approval of organizations and individuals that can promote polices and accelerate their implementation. When research and evaluation does not provide specific answers or raises more questions, it causes policy makers to dismiss research. Research often provides complex answers to our complex crime issues and this does not allow for policy makers to create quick fix policies for crime issues.

Today in America we have a crime problem that has been around for generations. Governments in each states spends an enormous amount of money for prisons, police salaries, courthouse and etc. just to try to keep up with the growing amount of law offenders that we have today. Whether we, the citizens like it or not we are exposed with violent behavior from the movies we watch to the music we listen to. Watching the evening news and the top headline news is about the “Orlando Shooting” suspect kills 49 (CNN.com) you are already exposed to violence.

"  In our World, threats to our Country are common and are becoming frequent. Issues like bullying, extremism, terrorism, and even the illegal production and distribution of drugs threaten all parts of the world more than ever. Not to mention, our increasing dependence on technology for business transactions, work, school, and storage of information has opened up a medium to effectuate these actions. The use of the internet no doubt is beneficial but like anything else, it can, and has been put to ill use. Controversy has been stirred up concerning the monitoring of internet content by the government.

This essay will discuss crime as both a social problem and a sociological problem. Crime is seen as a typical function of society. Crime doesn’t happen without society. It is created and determined by the surrounding society. According to the CSO, the number of dangerous and negligent acts committed between the years of 2008 and 2012 rose from 238’000 in 2008 to 257’000 in 2012.