DISCRETIONARY JUSTICE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT, THE COURTS, AND CORRECTIONS

Abstract

 The public insists that the criminal justice system must be fair, 
effective to every individual citizen under the rule of the law. The criminal 
justice system’s primary goals, within its three principal component (law 
enforcement, courts, and corrections) are to maintain order in society, 
apprehend criminals, fairly punish them, and effectively operate a 
correctional system. Since the criminal justice system carries out such 
difficult tasks in terms of the constitutional protection of due process, each 
organization of the criminal justice system is confronted with and challenged 
by various problems.