Global Perspective Assessment

Global Perspectives Assessment

Assess the Impact of Globalization on the U.S. Criminal Justice System

Globalization has given rise to new crimes like, human trafficking, sale of a body part, pornography on internet, hacking of information through social media and other online mediums, transfer of illegal funds online, terrorism and much more. These new types of crimes mostly internet related have risen along with the rise of globalization, which has not only made the communication and transferring of information and funds very easy for the common individuals but have also made it an easy for the criminal activities all around the globe (Shaw et.al, 2003).

United States is a land of many diversified cultures and thus has to deal with a lot of different criminal activities from all around the globe as well; as of this, requirement is that the government practitioners at American criminal justice know a vast deal about all the other cultures from all the different parts of the world (Shaw et.al, 2003).

The increase in the globalization of crime has given rise to many changes in the American criminal justice system, some of the principal one's amongst them include the introduction of many different agencies, like, DEA (drug enforcement Administration), FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), ATF (the bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and firearms) (Ward, 2000).

The other changes in the U.S criminal justice system include the training of law enforcers from different parts of U.S to be trained together; this enables the sharing of information and effectiveness of the overall force (Ward, 2000).

Compare and contrast international criminal justice systems (Civil Law, Common law, and Islamic Law and Socialist Law traditions).

The four most commonly followed forms of criminal justice systems throughout the world include socialist law, civil law, common law and the religious law. The most commonly followed of all of them include the civil law, followed by the common law, followed by the Islamic law (one of the religious laws) and then followed by a combination of civil and common laws.

Socialist Law

The system of law that formerly communist and non communist states used are the Socialistic law, which basis upon the system of civil law. While civil law emphasizes upon the acquisition, transfer, lost, theft and other certain issues for owning private property; the socialistic law, on the other hand, emphasizes upon the ownership of property by the government or the agricultural rules and also emphasizes upon the rules and laws for such related case issues.

Some of the attributes of the socialist law were: • It discouraged the diversity of political independent opinions • The privately owned properties demolished under the socialist law reign. • The party had an excessive control over the private lives of people. • Public prosecution was a form of justice, instead of amending the character through a proper judicial process.

Examples of socialist law still exist in some countries like, in China; it exists in the property laws in which the land owner is government while the structure built ...