Law-abider and lawbreaker alike devour television programs such as Cops and America's Most Wanted . Arrogant, youthful parolees often return to a hero's welcome in their neighborhoods. Prisons remain grossly overcrowded, and criminals laugh at the system while accepting jail sentences over probation, because doing so gets them turned loose so much sooner. Although the criminal justice system in the United States seems a hopeless mess, its problems are manageable. New, fresh perspectives from people who major in this field are the key to solving them.
Criminal justice addresses crime in society.
It deals with the systems of a society to contain crime. Crime rates rise and fall, and although crime can never really be eliminated as long as there are human beings in society, it can be continued at a tolerable level. If crime touches you personally, you may think that it is intolerable no matter what the statistics say, but given the population as a whole, keeping crime to a manageable amount is what criminal justice is all about. History and Background Human beings have an element of selfishness in them, and as long as there have been human beings living in association with each other, there has been crime. The ways in which groups deal with crime evolve with the society.