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1 AGENDA FOR WEEK TWO Current News in Criminal Justice Turn in newspapers and discussions Continue lecture on levels of police, due process and the Bill of Rights Case law- Gideon vs. Wainwright Cover what case law is

2 Current News Population of 23,000

3 Criminal Justice and Basic Fairness
Justice- The Principle of fairness (moral rightness) Social Justice- Embraces all aspects of civilized life Fairness, Right and Wrong Civil Justice- The civil law, the law of civil procedure ... Morality is the system through which we determine right and wrong conduct

4 Police Some states in our country have state police agencies i.e.
VSP is the Virginia State Police, or TBI the state of Tennessee has a Bureau of Investigation State Police

5 Federal LAW ENFORCEMENT
Immigration and Customs Enforcement

6 STATE POLICE ONLY STATE POLICE IN CALIFORNIA

7 LOCAL POLICE

8 COURTS

9 Courts Conduct fair and impartial trials Decide criminal cases
Ensure due process Determine guilt or innocence Impose sentences Uphold the law Protect the rights and freedoms of anyone in the justice system

10 Corrections Carry out sentences imposed by the courts
Provide safe and humane custody and supervision of offenders ( ??) Protect the community Rehabilitate, reform, and reintegrate convicted offenders back into the community Respect the legal and human rights of the convicted OVER CROWDING

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12 American Criminal Justice The Process
Due Process and Individual Rights United States Constitution requires: FAIRNESS (impartial and just treatment or behavior without favoritism or discrimination) EQUITY (the quality of being fair and impartial)

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16 The Process Due process and individual rights (Procedural fairness) Example, foreign language Due process- right guaranteed by the fourth, fifth, sixth, and fourteenth Amendments 4th, illegal searches and  seizures 5th, self incrimination 6th criminal defendants, including the right to a public trial without unnecessary delay 14th, citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves CASE LAW-Gideon v. Wainwright 372 U.S (1963)

17 Process of courts Federal

18 Process of courts State level Superior court or municipal court
Appeal or appellate court Supreme Court

19 GIDEON FOUND GUILTY APPEAL PROCESS WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS- (A writ of habeas corpus is used to bring a prisoner or other detainee (e.g. institutionalized mental patient) before the court to determine if the person's imprisonment or detention is lawful.) STATE APPELLATE COURT U.S. Supreme Court

20 Criminal Justice Careers
Chapter one, page 18

21 QUESTIONS


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