Portal:Criminal justice

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search

The Criminal justice Portal

Scales of Justice
Criminal justice is the system of, practices, and organizations, used by national and local governments, directed at maintaining social control, deterring and controlling crime, and sanctioning those who violate laws with criminal penalties and rehabilitation. The primary agencies charged with these responsibilities are law enforcement (police and prosecutors), courts, defense attorneys and local jails and prisons which administer the procedures for arrest, charging, adjudication and punishment of those found guilty. When processing the accused through the criminal justice system, government must keep within the framework of laws that protect individual rights. The pursuit of criminal justice is, like all forms of "justice," "fairness" or "process," essentially the pursuit of an ideal. Throughout history, criminal justice has taken on many different forms which often reflect the cultural mores of society.
More about Criminal justice...
Show new selections

Selected article

Camp Courtney, Okinawa, Japan
The Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident was an attempted indecent assault by U.S. Marine Corps Major Michael Brown on a Filipina bartender, Victoria Nakamine, in Okinawa, Japan on November 2, 2002. The case received extensive attention in the Japanese media, especially on Okinawa, and the crime sparked a public debate over the U.S. military presence in Japan, the fairness of the Japanese legal system, and the practices of the Japanese police. The case involved the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan and the U.S.-Japan Status of Forces Agreement, the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between Japan and the United States. On July 8, 2004, after a 19-month trial, Brown was convicted by a Japanese court of attempted indecent assault and destruction of private property and received a one-year suspended prison sentence. Based on this incident and others involving crimes committed by U.S. military personnel in Japan, both countries entered into negotiations aimed at modifying the SOFA in July 2003; however, as of 2007, no changes have been made.

Selected picture

Helsinki Police patrol boats in Katajanokka, Helsinki, Finland
Credit: Pöllö

A police boat is usually a small sea-faring vessel that is used by police agencies to patrol bodies of water. They are usually employed in enclosed harbors near cities or in places where a stronger police presence than that offered by the Coast Guard is needed.

News

Wikinews Crime and law portal
Wikinews-logo.svg

Selected biography

Chalk and pencil sketch of Jack Sheppard in Newgate Prison
Jack Sheppard was a notorious English robber, burglar and thief of early 18th-century London. Born into a poor family, he was apprenticed as a carpenter but took to theft and burglary in 1723, with little more than a year of his training to complete. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped four times, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes. Ultimately, he was caught, convicted, and hanged at Tyburn, ending his brief criminal career after less than two years. The inability of the noted "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild to control Sheppard, and injuries suffered by Wild at the hands of Sheppard's colleague, Joseph "Blueskin" Blake, led to Wild's downfall. Sheppard was as renowned for his attempts to escape justice as for his crimes. He returned to the public consciousness in around 1840, when William Harrison Ainsworth wrote a novel entitled Jack Sheppard, with illustrations by George Cruikshank. The popularity of his tale, and the fear that others would be drawn to emulate his behaviour, led the authorities to refuse to license any plays in London with "Jack Sheppard" in the title for forty years.

Did you know...

Dermestidae beetle

Categories

WikiProjects

WikiProjects

What are WikiProjects?

Selected quote

Bust of Marcus Aurelius
Poverty is the mother of crime.

Featured content

Featured article star.png

Featured articles

Good articles


Main topics

Criminology

Crime

Main topics

Criminal justice system

Law enforcement (Police)

Courts

Corrections (Penology)

Things you can do

Things you can do

Related portals

BlackFlagSymbol.svg
GenocidePortalLogo(ESR)2.JPG
Liberty Torch.svg
Scale of justice 2.svg
P philosophy.png
A coloured voting box.svg
Nuvola filesystems folder home.png
Miecze.svg
Anarchism Genocide Human rights Law Philosophy Politics Society War

Associated Wikimedia

Criminal justice on Wikinews
News
Criminal justice on Wikiquote
Quotes
Criminal justice on Commons
Images
Criminal justice on Wikisource
Texts
Criminal justice on Wikibooks
Books
Personal tools
Namespaces
Variants
Actions
Navigation
Interaction
Toolbox
Print/export
Languages