Abstract
The challenge of street crime is supposed to be met by what is known as the criminal justice system (CJS), which is assigned to prevent, deter, detect, rehabilitate, incapacitate, and otherwise deal with crime and criminals. The system’s mission is plain: to make society safe, or at least safer.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth.
—Daniel Webster (1782–1852)
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Bouza, A.V. (1993). The Criminal Justice System. In: How to Stop Crime. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6483-0_10
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