The Criminal Justice System

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The violent crime rate in the United States today remains more than three times higher than during the decade following World War II. The aggravated assault rate is nearly four times what it was then and news reports commonly celebrate the current drop in crime rates to the levels of the late 1970s, but fail to note that by then the long road of unbroken annual crime increases had already tripled the rates of the 1950s. The paper shows, that based on the emerging epidemic of juvenile crime, the unknown impact of the coming wave of 'crack babies,' together with an array of other predictable or unpredictable changes, the potential for increases in crime continues and represents an enormous challenge for the criminal justice system in the U.S. today and in the future. This paper provides a comparative analysis of the effectiveness of law enforcement techniques in the United States during the period 1940 - 2003, followed by a summary of the research in the conclusion.

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"This is not to say of course that relief is not available for victims or that all police officers are indifferent to the suffering and emotional trauma involved in violent crime. It is to say, however, the sheer numbers of victims who enter the criminal justice system today for the first time will predictably result in a number of them simply giving up in light of the lengthy prosecutions involved, the number of court appearances required, and the need to interrupt personal lives and jobs in order to satisfy the requirements of being a witness."

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