Global Perspective Assessment

Global Perspective Assessment

Introduction

The overall criminal justice system includes the courts, police, and some of the correction departments. The main aim of the criminal justice system is to provide safety and security to the citizens through the implementation of rules, laws and regulations. The law enforcement agencies ensure the state to impose laws through which the rate of crimes can be controlled. However, globalization has led crimes and their nature in new and expanded forms (Usman &Jason, 2006). This paper will be focusing on the global perspective assessment, in which the criminal justice system of the United States and on the international level will be discussed in detail.

Discussion

The impact of globalization on the U.S. Criminal justice system

The impact of globalization on the nature of committing crimes has significantly affected the way criminal are committing crimes. In the United States, the rate of criminal activities has grown significantly which is influencing its state citizen to raise voice against the authorities for the implementation of new forms of laws and regulations which can ensure the safety of citizens. The assessment of the inclination towards the criminal justice system in an international perspective takes into consideration the global character of crimes in the United States. However, the criminal justice system of the United States has responded to it and cooperated with global efforts in curtailing the level and frequency of international crimes. With the changes in the global perspective of criminal justice system, the implications for American criminal justice system were not greater than they are implicating now. With the emergence of globalization trends, it is also delivering several new challenges for the researchers and practitioners to combat global issues of crimes and terrorism. Within this the most important and significant factors of these challenges are the global dimensions of crimes, technological influences on global criminality, the impact of legal and illegal immigration, transnational organized crime and the influence of a more diversified American culture (Monika, 2009).

In order to combat these modifying and changing environments, the criminal justice system of America which consists of courts and correction and police are now facing serious issues of new forms of criminality. However, the overall impact of globalization on the criminal justice system has put pressure on the government of the state to consider an increasing recognition and the significance of international cooperation, emerging threats on the border of United States and the explosion of new techniques of committing crimes. The response of the United States towards global impact on criminal activities required significant changes in policy and law, putting more emphasis on the training and education of practitioners from top to bottom of the government. Furthermore, considering the language and culture, the criminal justice practitioners of the coming days will be have broad understanding of the legal systems.

This is a simple definition of the function of the criminal justice system which is based on a citizen's expectations; however, in view of the fact that more immigrants come in to the United States ...