Criminal Justice System Usa

I believe that not merely government but all citizens in the country have a responsibility to ensure that crime does not happen; for instance, police work is only as effective as the level of cooperation it receives from citizens. Crime is everybody’s business.

And the criminal justice system has responsibility for enforcing criminal laws through agencies that include legislatures, police, courts, and corrections; and the criminal justice system has four components: police, prosecution, courts, and corrections.

People are very concerned about the upsurge in crime in any society, and quite rightly so. Some people have blamed governments for being unable to cope with criminality. Some have criticized the Guyana Police Force likewise. Some premature critics also assert that the police need to eliminate crimes, and deter crimes. But the police are not equipped to deter or prevent crimes region-wide; research literature on crime prevention by the police in Guyana is practically non-existent. Behavioural and social scientists are needed to answer the many questions on what the police can do to prevent crime.

Many of these strategic answers are still to come. So in the meantime, we have to understand the limitations of a ‘crime prevention’ role for the police, created by this data void. Right now, the best function the police can have and are performing is to solve localized incidents of crime, but we cannot expect them to play an aggressive region-wide ‘crime-prevention’ role for narco-trafficking, gun-running, etc.

A US commission report noted that the police did not initiate crime and may be unable to end the convulsive changes in society. The police do not produce the laws that they must enforce, and they do not dispose of the criminals arrested. Apportioning blame laced with political contours is not the way forward in any efforts aimed at stamping out criminal activities. And the people making these erroneous remarks are themselves bankrupt in terms of pragmatic suggestions for improving the crime situation.

A government may have a high responsibility in fighting crime, but the cooperation of citizens is necessary.

Mr Maxwell admits that he lacks understanding of the institutionalizing of moral belief and moral credibility in the criminal justice system in Guyana.

Well, let’s see what we can do here. Professor Paul Robinson of Northwestern University suggested that the never-ending degeneration into crime is not due to negligence; he argues that crime is happening, notwithstanding the finest efforts available to stop it.

Robinson posited that these best efforts are not producing the desired results; how so? He talked about the use of imprisonment

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