criminal justice
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcriminalandjustice
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criminal
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈkrɪm.ɪ.nəl/us/ˈkrɪm.ə.nəl/
relating ...
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justice
noun
uk/ˈdʒʌs.tɪs/us/ˈdʒʌs.tɪs/
fairness in the way people are ...
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(Definition ofcriminalandjusticefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The first was the focus on the damage done to children by thecriminaljusticesystem.
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The choice of this period is significant both for the history of the press, and for that ofcriminaljustice.
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Sometimes this will involve collaboration across relevant but distinct disciplines such as psychology, sociology, social work, law,criminaljustice, and psychiatry.
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However, this legislation did not make a significant change tocriminaljusticeand its budget was fairly small.
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Alongside increasedcriminaljusticedemands for contemporary perpetrators of violence, those who suffered from human rights violations do not sense any judicial support.
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That said, academic interest incriminaljusticematters increased in response to the apparent eruption of common crime and violence in the postauthoritarian period.
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Most large, developed nations spend billions of dollars every year on theircriminaljusticesystems.
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Only an unusually muscular state could push 3 percent of its adult population into thecriminaljusticesystem.
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While thecriminaljusticeprocess is adversarial, primarily offender focused and retributive in character, restorative approaches will make only marginal gains for justice.
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This objection raises questions about the conceptual foundations of thecriminaljusticesystem which cannot be fully answered here.
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In the case ofcriminaljustice, several stinging defeats for opponents of civil rights galvanized a powerful elite countermovement.
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As a result, officers have become implicated in the new, punitivecriminaljustice.
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The mood of civilised systems ofcriminaljusticeincreasingly demands professionalism.
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The same relaxation of the concept of locality is evident in other aspects of thecriminaljusticesystem.
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This is a significant gap in thecriminaljusticehistory of this period for several reasons.
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However, no substantial study of the overall nature of newspaper reporting on crime andcriminaljusticeissues has yet been undertaken.
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Her areas of expertise are criminology andcriminaljusticepolicy, housing and homelessness, drug and alcohol use, and qualitative research.
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I have excluded from consideration any acts ofcriminaljustice, ordinances and institutional acts, such as agreements between guilds.
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Nonetheless, this book will for many years to come dominate the historiography of eighteenth-centurycriminaljustice.
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