Criminal Justice System The criminal justice system is a centralized and developed system that aimed to provide protection from tyranny and avail the victim with justice. Court, legislature, justice supporting agencies, and authorities collectively perform their role for the satisfied implementation of justice throughout a state or s country. According to the designed legislation, different punishments are set up to stay away from society from different crimes (Wemmers 1996). 1) The basic and core components of the criminal system are police for intake of cases, courts, and corrections that collaboratively meet each other to sort out the problems of society (Reid 1993). 2) The police are the foremost component that plays its role for the criminal justice system by investing in crimes, searching out criminals, also investigating law violators, and making necessary measures by arresting the suspected one. All the proceedings made by the police are undertaken by the court. Court makes judgments, the quest for proofs from suspicious criminal to show that either he/she is innocent or violates the rules. So, the court is responsible to make a decision that may prove that the suspected person has guilty of a rule violation or is innocent with wrongly blamed criticizing. While the correctional system is involved in making rehabilitation and possible changes to make the offenders and their social behavior suitable and acceptable for society with abiding by laws. All these three components are the basic pillars that are involved in the implementation of laws over the whole country, make trials to stop crimes, and protect people from offenders. So, the basic goal of the criminal justice system is the reduction of crimes in the country. 3) No doubt all the criminal justice process is interlinked with each other. Different steps and processes are undertaken to reach the bottom of the issue. But again, some conflicts are also present related to police proceedings, selection of a right judge that may have the capability to take decisions full of justice. The conflict occurs on the estimation that all of the basic pillars of the criminal justice system are working by keeping in view unity of purpose or not. The working of all police personnel and judges is being reviewed to know where the gap that is exploring conflicts is. 4) So, under interlinking of the components of the criminal justice system, the first step is about the investigations that are done by the police department. After investigation, the suspected one is being arrested. Then the process of prosecution is undertaken according to specified litigations of a country. So these legal proceedings clear that the suspected person is to move forward as a criminal or not (Blumstein and Larson 1969). After the prosecution, the next test is about the indictment. The prosecutor provides proof before the grand jury while the offender is not allowed to make justification or provide declarations about himself. After those arraignments, bail, plea bargaining, sentencing, and final appeals are some terminating steps in criminal justice that assist to get the final decision. So decision making based on the rules and discretion (Gottfredson and Gottfredson 1987). Commonly no formal rules are being followed to punish the criminal. Judges also prefer to use discretion for giving bail or to make a decision that either accepts or rejects the plea bargains. 5) So, a Criminal justice with its basic pillars is striving best to offer public justice, the interrelation among police, court authority, and correction is helpful and supportive in best-justified decision making. So according to my thinking and point of view, when all these components will work for the unity of purpose, the results will be superb. Except for this, the people will consider the rules abiding when there would not be any chance of confliction in thinking and mindset of police and judges. Hence, the criminal just system is well developed and funnel-like propagating system that can undertake broad cases and reduce them in short final decisions. Bibliography Blumstein, A. and R. Larson (1969). "Models of a total criminal justice system." Operations Research 17(2): 199-232. Gottfredson, M. R. and D. M. Gottfredson (1987). Decision making in criminal justice: Toward the rational exercise of discretion, Springer Science & Business Media. Reid, S. T. (1993). Criminal justice, Macmillan Publishing Company New York. Wemmers, J.-A. M. (1996). Victims in the criminal justice system, Kugler publications.
