Criminal Justice System (Social and Psychological Assessment of the Offender)



Abstract

The criminal justice management and administration is there for public to save them from harm and provide protection and regulation. Mutually and individually the components of the criminal justice system make efforts to avoid crime, and hold criminal behavior. The research paper discusses and psychological and sociological factors in investigating offender.

Criminal Justice System (Social and Psychological Assessment of the Offender)

Introduction

The research paper focuses on induction and deduction process of the criminal justice system. When the evidence is verified and can be seen or evaluated that is the deductive process what we can see that process is from general to specific. When investigators have evidences on that basis they verify the offender. These are usually sociological factors that investigators can analyze by searching. If a person is poor and hungry we might be able to say the person is offender. That is general to specific deductive process (Braswell, Michael, 1998).When the investigator searches some judgmental factors in offender the process is inductive process. This process is from specific to general. These are psychological factors that cannot be seen instantly. These are the processes used in the forensic psychology.

Discussion

Forensic Psychology is simple the integration of psychology and criminal justice. Forensic psychology is the branch of psychology which blends concepts from both psychology and criminal justice system. The most controversial aspect of forensic psychology is about the acceptability of forensic evidence in the criminal justice system (Courts). Forensic psychology is the branch of psychology that applies to the gathering, scrutinizing and interpreting of information for legal purposes. It is most often used by psychologists in hospitals and psychiatric services and those who work in law enforcement and correctional fields (Geberth, 1981).

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