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An Overview of the Criminal Justice System Law Enforcement One of the hard jobs that law enforcement face is working with and comforting victims of crime. Image: Victim being Consoled. Authored by: FBI. Source: https://www.fbi.gov/image-repository/original.jpeg/view. License: CC-0 Victims first come into the CJS through law enforcement, so it is important to understand how law enforcement […]

Examine the ways that the criminal justice system interacts with victims of crime, including system biases. The goal of this module is to familiarize readers with the criminal justice system (CJS). Specifically, attention will be given to how victims and communities have been treated by the CJS. In addition, you will learn how interactions with

Opinion and Other Polling In addition to the sources mentioned previously, other types of surveys and opinion polling help inform what we know about victimization. • The national intimate partner and sexual violence survey is an ongoing survey examining sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner physical violence among English- and Spanish-speaking women and men over

Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) To focus on assistance to crime victims, change attitudes about victimization, and work to help victims rebuild their lives after they have experienced a victimization Oversees the Crime Victims Fund and works with states on compensation plans; collects data on victimization programs in the United States     Victim

Agency Mission What It Does National Institute of Justice (NIJ) To study advances in technology for criminal justice, such as forensics, judicial processing, and social science research Collects missing person data, studies effectiveness of nonlethal technologies and officer safety equipment, and sponsors grant programs to collaborate with academic and nonprofit organizations to study violence against

Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) The vast majority of crime statistics used in the United States comes from the UCR. In 1929, the FBI started collecting information from local law enforcement agencies about the number of crimes that occurred in each jurisdiction. In the 1920s, as the scientific study of policing began as a field, the

Analyze victimization measurement techniques, including their strengths and weaknesses. The prior section presented a number of statistics about the prevalence of crime in the United States, with almost all of those statistics and definitions coming from official sources of information about crime, specifically the FBI. The FBI collects and analyzes crime in the United States

Emerging Crime Trends Cybercrime is one of the emerging trends globally. Annually, billions of dollars are lost because of cybercrimes, whether from hacking into companies, disabling hospitals or banks, or the individual effects of identity theft and fraud. These crimes can be from foreign agents or companies seeking to gain an advantage to people trying

Crime Rates As mentioned earlier, the media tends to show the most eye-catching crimes in order to gain viewership, but often the crimes portrayed in the media do not reflect the realities of victimization. We can talk about crime statistics in two different ways. The first uses the raw number of crimes and victims to

Violent crimes and the victims usually relate to the following: • Murder – the unlawful killing of a human being. The act of murder needs to include premeditation, or planning (mens rea ~ guilty mind), and it must occur without excuse or justification. It’s this state of mind that differentiates homicide (murder) from manslaughter. These