Criminal justice
The study of criminal justice traditionally revolves around three main components of the criminal justice system:
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- police
- courts
- corrections
Criminal justice is distinct from the field of criminology, which involves the study of crime as a social phenomena, causes of crime, criminal behavior, and other aspects of crime.
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The pursuit of criminal justice is, like all forms of "justice" or "fairness" or "process", essentially the pursuit of an ideal. Thus this field has many relations to anthropology, criminology, economics, history, law, political science, psychology, sociology, and theology.
Related Topics:
Justice - Ideal - Anthropology - Criminology - Economics - History - Law - Political science - Psychology - Sociology - Theology
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