Criminal Justice System And The Government Of America

Criminal justice is one of the most important systems which affect everyone’s life in the government of America. Within the system, although the debate over causes and solutions to crime will probably never end, the government has evolved and developed a criminal justice system for dealing with crimes. By deterring and mitigating crime, upholding social control, or sanctioning those who violate laws with criminal penalties and rehabilitation efforts, the criminal justice system has a fundamental role in maintaining the national security. It also raises vital questions for each of American about fairness, security, and rights in a free society. Throughout a collection of articles in Criminal Justice, edited by Noà «l Merino for the Opposing†¦show more content†¦For example, the death penalty and life sentences without words should not be annulled since there are some penalties that will work better than the heavy sentence. Moreover, there are many communities in the s ystem should be limited to a number of benefits such as terrorist suspects should not be entitled to Miranda warnings, or the accused should have the right to choose their own defense lawyers. Above all, the occurring racial disparities in the criminal justice system needs to be addressed. In The racial differences in Need criminal justice system to be addressed, an article written by Marc Mauer, executive director of the Project and the author sentenced the race to detention, arguing that it is needed to reduce inequalities of race and ethnicity are not legitimate because the high-speed deflection carceration in communities of color. He indicates, â€Å"African American represented 14 percent of current drug users, yet they constituted 33.9 percent of persons arrested for a drug offense† (Mauer 52) which means the existence of the practice of disparate and racial profiling in justice system. In a contrast viewpoint, John Perazzo, the managing editor of Discover the Networks, argues that the president of the U.S. wrongly claimed that there is racism and disparities in the criminal justice. The fact that â€Å"average black breaks the law more frequently than the average white† (Perazzo 60) proves that the