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Crime and Justice in the US, Review of the Criminal Justice System

Week Number Five

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Web Links for Review:

The Key Elements of Community Oriented Policing

Required Readings:

Building Hope Through Community Justice, Donald G. Evans

Community Prosecution: Community Policing's Legal Partner, Susan P. Weinstein

Community Policing: The Process of Transitional Change, Michael G. Breci, and Timothy E. Erickson

Reinvention or Repackaging Public Service? The Case of Community-Oriented Policing, Gerasimos A. Gianakis and G. John Davis, III.

(The system seems to search for this article better if you just enter: The Case of Community -Oriented Policing)

Partnerships for Public Safety, Cheryl Crawford and Vincent Talucci

Metro State Home Page

How to Access These Articles

PDF Files for Review:

Opening the Courts to the Community: Volunteers in Wisconsin's Courts

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Segment Requirements
Assignment
Learning Objectives:
  • The purpose of and reasons for community involvement in the justice system.

  • Develop strategies for involvement of the community in the justice system.

  • Types of justice system involvement in the community.
Review Topics:
  • What role and function does the community and the individual members play in the justice system currently? Should this change?

  • Through the implementation of community policing has law enforcement lost its way, or mission?

  • What role does the community play in the establishment of law enforcement priorities?
Discussion Topics:
  1. Should law enforcement and probation officers form partnerships to support the reduction of crime? What are the implications of this approach?

  2. In what way would the mission of a law enforcement agency change through community involvement?
Writing Requirement:
  • The involvement of community in the justice system will run into many roadblocks, describe two of these and offer some solutions to the problems.
Review Questions
  1. Community Policing demands that officers examine root causes of problems and to take that extra step to identify the cause of the problem? (True or False)


  2. Is there a risk of circumvention of the constitution with the partnerships between probation and police? (discuss)

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Additional Information:

Community justice is generally defined as doing the business of the justice system in the community. Through law enforcement activities known generally as community policing, law enforcement agencies have moved into working with the community. Each agency has implemented community policing in different ways, and some have implemented that are not true community policing and called them community policing. You have read several articles about how other segments of the justice system can work within and with the community. The one critical issue is how do members of the justice system gain and maintain the trust of the members of the community. The next section on restorative justice may provide additional insights.

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