DAMODARAM SANJIVAYYA

NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY

SABBAVARAM, VISAKHAPATNAM, A.P., INDIA

PROJECT TITLE

Criminal Justice

SUBJECT

Sociology II

NAME OF THE FACULTY

Dr. Ganta Satyanarayana

Name of the Candidate:- Siddhi Vinayak

Roll No.:- 22LLB133

Semester:- II

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I Siddhi Vinayak heartily and gratefully acknowledge my indebtedness to my project

supervisor who guided me in this study from its inception and whole learning and insights
helped me immensely in the writing of the Research Paper on the topic “Criminal Justice”.
Working under him has indeed been a rewarding experience for me.

I would like to extend my gratitude to the DAMODARAM SANJIVAYYA NATIONAL

LAW UNIVERSITY library and the academic department for their continuous support and
availability of resources and books without which it would have been impossible to complete
this project within the stipulated time frame.

I would also like to express my gratitude to my parents and classmates for their unconditional
support, as well as their ideas and viewpoints, which helped me move forward with my
project.

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 TABLE OF CONTENT

S. No. Topic Page No.

1. Abstract 4

2. Objectives of the Study 5

3. Significance of the study 5

4. Literary Review 5

5. Research Methodology 5

6. Introduction 6

7. Sociology and Criminal Justice 6-7

8. Discipline of Criminal Justcie 7-8

9. Criminal Justice As Ideology 8-10

10. Criminal Justice Textbooks 10-13

11. Conclusion 14

12. Bibliography 15

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 ABSTRACT

In this project, the criminal justice, it takes a sociological approach to questions around the
law and legal processes, crime and its causes and consequences, and systems of punishment.
This project critically examine the inner workings of institutions like courts, prisons, and
human rights commissions, working to understand how power and inequality shape
definitions and operations of law, legality, crime, and justice. This project emphasizes using
social science research methods, including interviews, statistical analysis, survey research,
ethnography, and historical and comparative analysis, to better understand these systems of
social control.

How Criminal justice should be considered as ideology. This project reviews different books
written on Criminal Justice and are critically analysed. As for the issue of how to contemplate
regulation and law enforcement, the principal illustration or point made was to the
significance in moving past clarifications that ground results in individual and aggregate
decisions and plans. There are primary powers and social structures that settle on their
decisions conceivable and conceivable. The subsequent illustration or point made is that the
humanistic viewpoint will in general be primary as opposed to person. The social scientist is
more worried about the organization of connections into which they are implanted, their jobs,
their participation in aggregate classifications like those of race and orientation, inside a more
extensive social design.

The contention is made that regulations and law enforcement frameworks don't exist outside
of the connections, designs, and belief systems of a general public. The idea of advancement
(a shift towards a metropolitan, modern, state-directed, mainstream society) should be
fundamental to the endeavors at getting the design and capacity of social control frameworks.
Detainment facilities, formal lawful codes, legal counselors, and professionalized police, for
instance can be in every way seen as articulations of unfurling properties of advancement.

Innovation gives a beginning stage from which to send off investigation into contemporary
regulation and law enforcement. Notwithstanding, cutoff points to its range have been
reported. This book endeavors to work with a more profound comprehension of regulation
and the law enforcement framework. It gives a progression of apparatuses that empower a
basic and educated way to deal with some regarding the most significant and predominant
foundations in contemporary life. Conversation centers around the exact idea of regulation

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and law enforcement, their presence and impacts in reality. It stresses the manners by which
the two regulations and the frameworks through which they are executed are the results of
human activities and significance making.

SYNOPSIS

Objectives of the Study

The Objective of this study was to familiarize reader with What is Criminal Justice and how
it is related to sociology and How Criminal Justice can be an Ideology.

Signification of the Study

The research will help us in comprehending What is criminal Justice and how it is
linked with sociology.

Literary Review

The study examined a variety of web sources, including JSTOR, Hein Online etc.
Various research papers, Books and journal articles are also evaluated and read in
order to obtain essential information and data for this endeavour.

Research Methodology
The Doctrinal Method of study was adopted by the researcher to discover answers to the
research questions. To demonstrate and illustrate the explanations, it was clarified employing
an Descriptive technique.

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 CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Introduction

Liazos (1972) expressed over twenty years prior that the early provincial working class
lecturing in the scholastic investigation of social issues had been superseded by a supposed
endeavor to "acculturate" deviation through marking hypothesis. In any case, the advanced
methodology discarded an extensive assessment of force and dug in detestable, like
destitution, bigotry, and war. Humanism had the option to shed one bias and shift to one more
by progressing from social issues to aberrance. Following twenty years, the social science of
aberrance's obvious humanism has been superseded by the law enforcement framework's
occupation direction. The shift from cultural issues to abnormality to law enforcement
fundamentally affects the design and substance of degenerate conduct research. The ascent of
law enforcement altogether affects human science enlistments and, at last, the discipline of
social science. We fight that the investigation of social issues has been displaced by a
commodified, vocation arranged procedure that, especially the humanistic treatment of
wrongdoing and aberrance, debilitates hypothetical assortment and any humanism.1

Sociology and Criminal Justice

As indicated by Akers (1992), the development of subfields in human science littly affects
scholastic social science. Akers expressed that the arrangement of particular offices and
expert associations littly affects the area of human science by zeroing in on the connection
among social science and criminal science. Essentially, he asserted that isolating criminal
science and law enforcement on an administrative level doesn't modify the humanistic
substance of these fields of study.2

Because of the impact of the late Edwin Sutherland, all criminal science courses were
educated in humanism offices until the mid-1960s, and all criminal science reading material
were created by sociologists. This started to move by the last part of the 1960s. Regulation

1
Bill Farrell and Larry Koch, ‘Criminal Justice, Sociology, and Academia, (1995) 26(1) JSTOR <
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27698713> accessed on 20 March 2022.
2
Philip Smith, Kristin Natalier, ‘Understanding Criminal Justice: Sociological Perspectives, OJP <
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/understanding-criminal-justice-sociological-perspectives>
accessed on 20 March 2022.

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implementation experts were given enormous amounts of cash from the national government
to seek after tertiary schooling. As per Akers, "the field then detonated" (Akers, 1992:7). He
called attention to that the quantity of B.A.s granted in law enforcement every year is
generally equivalent to that of human science. Numerous social science offices, which are
typically found in universities of Arts and Sciences and are important for regular human
sciences schooling, find the professional accentuation in law enforcement unappealing, as per
Akers. He additionally noticed that the rising collection of information in organic criminal
science is assisting criminal science with turning out to be less dependent on social science.
Regardless of the elements pushing wrongdoing research away from human science, he kept
up with that law enforcement and criminal science are almost indistinguishable, and both are
reliable with sociologists' expert and scholarly customs. I would assert that most of the
instructors in these schools are undefined in their direction to wrongdoing and law
enforcement from those with doctorates in human science, as per Akers (1992:8). On his own
encounters as a crime analyst in general exploration associations, Akers arrived at the
resolution that "the focal point of human science has held."3

The Discipline of Criminal Justice

What recognizes law enforcement from social criminal science, and what are the limits of this
new field of study known as law enforcement? In scholarly world, there is a great deal of
misconception concerning the idea of law enforcement. There is no settlement on the
discipline's fundamental presumptions (or regardless of whether it is a discipline.) Criminal
equity isn't a discipline, as per Akers. It's a "subject of examination." He expressed that since
law enforcement offices have humanism degrees, they share similar series of expectations as
sociologists. Assuming that is the situation, why bother of the split? This, as per Akers, is
because of the way that law enforcement has "grown out of the discipline's limits."
Furthermore, the idea of law enforcement stays a secret. Is law enforcement a worldview in
the way that Thomas Kuhn characterized it? Ideal models, as per Kuhn (1970), reflect novel
and progressive perspectives that render prior viewpoints outdated. In truth, the changes in
the investigation of wrongdoing and law enforcement during the 1980s were in all probability
best comprehended as an extreme change in political direction. During the 1980s, law
enforcement moved to pursue the moderate political directions. Akers additionally stressed

3
Ibid.

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the developing commitments of financial experts, scholars, political researchers, and legal
advisors, every one of whom are centered around a similar point. It could be useful to relate
law enforcement to social work to more readily get it. The field of social work sees itself as
an arrangement situated, applied program of study. The discipline, then again, cases to have
an interdisciplinary logical information premise. While social work is plainly strategy
arranged, it additionally stresses the need of exploration. Research is utilized to approve data,
challenge existing practice, and investigate social specialists' own work. The significance put
on the calling's qualities and morals is at the core of its turn of events. The significance of the
social specialist's obligation to clients is underscored by impressive skill. The morals of a
social specialist are fixated on the client's regular independence. While the social laborer has
a moral obligation to both the client and the administration, the National Association of
Social Workers' Code of Ethics obviously inclines toward the client (see Popple and
Leighninger, 1990 or some other early on friendly work text, as well as the National
Association of Social Workers' Code of Ethics). In law enforcement, there is no such moral
prerequisite. Truth be told, there is no proper set of principles in the field of law enforcement.
Law enforcement isn't a client centered framework. Understudies of law enforcement are
instructed to be careful about clients. Law enforcement advances administration to the
detriment of the client, and perspectives organizations as a rule, and law enforcement
frameworks specifically, as careless. Thus, research in law enforcement won't ever be
however applicable as it could be in friendly work. It would be viewed as crazy to lead
research pointed toward making law enforcement specialists more receptive to clients.4

Criminal Justice as Ideology

As the conflict on wrongdoing and the conflict on drugs filled in power, government funding
expanded the quantity of law enforcement work when the more extensive work market was
contracting. The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration's unique command constrained
the law enforcement business to raise interest for taught (credentialed) laborers. Degreed
people were expected by the framework. These examples equal the ascent of independent law
enforcement frameworks.5 Simultaneously, colleges started to put a more prominent
accentuation on offices that measured up to understudies' expectation for work applicable
4
Gilbert Geis, ‘Sociology, Criminology, and Criminal Law, (1959) 7(1) OJP <
https://www.jstor.org/stable/798759> accessed on 24 March 2022.
5
Walter B. Miller, ‘Ideology and Criminal Justice Policy: Some Current Issues’ (1973) 64(2) JSTOR <
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1142984> accessed on 24 March 2022.

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instruction. These divisions, we accept, have become "slaves" to the law enforcement
framework. The development toward independent law enforcement divisions, in our
experience, is certifiably not a characteristic augmentation of humanistic criminal science.
Sutherland's course books (1934, 1939, 1947), Sutherland and Cressey's texts (1955, I960,
1970, 1974, 1978), and the latest Sutherland, Cressey, and Luckenbill text all supported a
liberal/basic way to deal with criminal science (1992). 992).

The liberal humanistic criminological practice underscored political, basic liberties, and
equity concerns.6 Sutherland's White Collar Crime (1983), in which he endeavored to rethink
the idea of a crook, was an outgrowth of these worries. The "discipline" of law enforcement
never raises these worries. To be sure, we trust that the essential justification behind the
division of law enforcement into independent offices, each with its own arrangement of
affiliations and examination plans, is that humanism's basic establishment represents a danger
to the law enforcement industry.

This division empowers exploration to be directed by industry necessities. Law enforcement

keeps up with its obligation to the organization of social control without a trace of expert
morals. The investigation of wrongdoing has "grown out of its limits," as indicated by Akers,
which is the primary justification for the development of law enforcement. He refers to, for
instance, financial and organic exploration on wrongdoing causation. The intriguing thing
about these "new" ways to deal with wrongdoing is that they aren't exactly new by any
means. The econometric way to deal with wrongdoing depends on levelheaded decision
models that underscore moral obligation.

The natural examination means to track down crooks with hereditary anomalies. What makes
these strategies one of a kind? These speculations have been read up by sociologists for quite
a long time and have been dismissed (see particularly Lewontin et al., 1984). For what reason
do we need to refight this battle? Isn't clearly the response is straightforward? Individual
obligation regarding wrongdoing or organic reasons for wrongdoing are appropriate to the
New Right's plan. To legitimize cruel discipline, individualsistic legitimizations for
wrongdoing are utilized. At last, we accept that law enforcement doesn't go past criminal
science's conventional limits. Law enforcement dismisses the Sutherland custom's basic
humanism. A noncontextualized philosophy serving the law enforcement industry has had its
spot. Akers misrepresented the circumstance and attempted to convince us that there are no

6
Ibid.

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issues. It is previous time for the scholastic local area to address the regulatory and scholarly
difficulties presented by humanism's fracture.7

Criminal Justice Textbooks

During the survey of these works, three components got explicit consideration: 1) What does
a starting course book say about law enforcement as a discipline or a calling? 2) How do
criminal science and humanism connect with law enforcement? 3) How do regular
humanistic/criminological subjects like the idea of regulation and social disparity, for
example, race and class predisposition, are tended to in law enforcement texts? To put it
another way, is the political part of law enforcement establishments examined? A meaning of
law enforcement as a scholarly endeavor isn't found in law enforcement reading material. A
couple of individuals utilize repetitious words to characterize law enforcement. The
association, capacity, and dynamic cycles of offices engaged with the administration and
control of wrongdoing and criminal guilty parties are alluded to as "law enforcement." The
police, the courts, and the punitive frameworks are totally engaged with the law enforcement
framework. Inciardi, 1993, p. v) Criminal equity is a formal general set of laws that executes
criminal regulation as well as a casual social establishment that capacities proficiently,
financially, and agreeably. (Samaha, p.5)

In most law enforcement books, law enforcement organizations are introduced in the system
of the got perspective. Fundamental dysfunctions get insignificant consideration. Individual
irregularities are frequently depicted as issues, which can be helped with more noteworthy
preparation. For example, regulation is habitually considered from a hypothetical outlook.
Criminal regulation mirrors society's craving to hold its residents back from participating in
"illicit" conduct. Criminal regulation, in contrast to common regulation, doesn't make a
difference to people; rather, it is utilized by the public authority in the interest of the whole
populace. (1987:7) (Abadinshy, 1987:7) (I've added accentuation) It would come as a shock
to racial minorities in America to observe that the law enforcement framework is their ally.
Acts that, assuming there were no criminal regulation, would be decided by the overall
population similarly that they are currently. If murder, burglary, and assault were not criminal

7
Walter B. Miller, ‘Ideology and Criminal Justice Policy: Some Current Issues’ (1973) 64(2) JSTOR <
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1142984> accessed on 24 March 2022.

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offenses, the words would in any case be utilized to depict something very similar or
comparable activities. Cole (1989:74), refering to C. Beam Jeffery. The governing body
endeavors to defend a worth, probably one shared by all inhabitants, with each criminal
limitation. A wrongdoing's mischief is the danger or annihilation of a specific worth...
(1994:82) Adler, Mueller, and Laufer The order of explicit goes about as wrongdoings
reflects, though incompletely, the upsides of different gatherings at a given time. The
meaning of criminal way of behaving may change as society's qualities, power structures, and
different attributes change.

The criminal regulation depends on the conviction that criminal demonstrations hurt all
residents of the state or country by endangering social and political dependability, edified
nationhood, and monetary endurance. (1990:4) (Robin and Anson). I'm interested on the off
chance that survivors of Jim Crow regulations or asbestos harming would concur with these
prohibitive definitions. Different creators bring up irregularities in criminal regulation
clarifications, however either excuse them altogether or neglect to fuse decisive reasoning
into the center of their texts (see particularly Cole 1989, Samaha 1988, Inciardi 1993, Reid
1993). Likewise, regulation requirement is dealt with nonchalantly.

A model comes from a law enforcement text from 1976. "As a rule, one might say that in the
possession of those in expert in America's law enforcement framework, the utilization of this
social apparatus (regulation power police) has been valuable" (Waldron, et al., 1976:44).
Minorities and worker's guild individuals might contradict this end, as well as what is
regularly left inferred about the historical backdrop of "big-hearted" associations like the
Texas Rangers and the Pinkerton Detective Agency (see, for instance, Reid 1993, Inciardi
1993). Numerous Americans may likewise have a problem with Anderson and Newman's
(1993:119-120) guileless acknowledgment of the F.B.I's. history. J. Edgar Hoover's
arrangement as overseer of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1924, and resulting change
of the office from an undermined and degenerate association to the lofty Federal Bureau of
Investigation with an authentic standing for genuineness and uprightness, was another critical
upgrade [to police professionalism]. Law enforcement frameworks are never talked about
with regards to their political nature.

It is normal to excuse wrongdoing as an unavoidable element of social associations (see Cole

1989; Waldron 1976) or to neglect the social and political setting of wrongdoing and
discipline. Moderate biases can be unmistakable now and again. As per Pursley's (1987)

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reading material, the objective of the law enforcement framework is to "keep the current
control, which is vital for the security of a coordinated society" (Pursley, 1987:29). Which
job does bigotry and neediness play in law enforcement texts? Just six of the fourteen books
in the Books in Print assortment have a subject file that notices race. Most of the references
are brief rundowns of the Rodney King case. In no text does a precise investigation of
prejudice in the law enforcement framework exist. Likewise, the term destitution was just
seen as in two of the 14 texts.

We just found two references that notice the subject momentarily. In no law enforcement
reading material is there an efficient conversation of destitution or disparity. Think about the
accompanying passage from one of the most generally utilized law enforcement texts,
Inciardi (1993): The [President's Crime] Commission was innocent to recommend, for
instance, that "fighting on wrongdoing" signifies "fighting on destitution, deficient lodging,
and joblessness," or that "cash for schools is cash against wrongdoing." For some ages,
specialists had concentrated on the connection among wrongdoing and neediness, and they
had arrived at the unavoidable resolution that the main driver of wrongdoing couldn't be
found in any straightforward condition including just poor people. (1993:19) (Inciardi)

The moderate plan is assisted by sociologists' enthusiasm to seek after the extremely
advantageous and good objective of making sense of why wrongdoing happens, as opposed
to proposing explicit public strategy suggestions to address the wrongdoing problem:...
tremendous commonsense obstacles might lie behind sociologists' energy to seek after the
extremely advantageous and decent objective of making sense of why wrongdoing happens,
instead of proposing explicit public arrangement suggestions to settle the wrongdoing
problem.... (Samaha, p. 114 in Samaha, 1988.) Our consideration has as of late moved away
from the subtle roots (reasons for wrongdoing) and toward the criminal himself and ways of
preventing him from perpetrating violations. Individuals take in light of the fact that the
advantages of taking, when contrasted with the advantages of working, are seen to be more
prominent. Thus, the gamble of being found, secured, and punished (cost) should be
exhibited to be more prominent than the expected returns or advantages. (1979:25-26)
Chamelinetal.

There is no book that incorporates criminological hypotheses, humanistic points of view, or

legitimate speculations into the principle text. While 12 of the 14 books in the Books in Print
assortment manage regulation, most of them don't go past an essential clarification of the

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mala in se/mala prohibita qualifications. One book talks about lawful hypotheses, and five
books recognize struggle and agreement approaches in any event. Sections on wrongdoing
speculations and clarifications can be viewed as in seven of the books. Four of them are
overwhelmed by humanistic clarifications, with the excess three overwhelmed by mental,
organic, and normal decision clarifications.

Hypothesis is never used to scrutinize the law enforcement framework in these texts. Middle
class wrongdoing is additionally scarcely referenced in these books. There is anything but a
solitary word about corporate or foundational viciousness. Jus tice issues are just managed in
quite certain conditions. There are recorded references to equity in nine of the fourteen texts
(Books in Print). Four of the texts manage law enforcement procedural troubles, one with
other equity frameworks, and only one with bigger social conditions. All in all, the absence of
a humanistic viewpoint? or then again some other basic viewpoint? in law enforcement texts
is essential. If by some stroke of good luck these sources were utilized to find out about the
law enforcement framework, one would unavoidably infer that nothing bad can be said about
it; that diminished security, expanded actual power, and expanded discipline are for the most
part regular and inescapable reactions to the wrongdoing issue. Moreover, one would be left
with presumably that these foundations are successful in diminishing wrongdoing in
American culture.

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 CONCLUSION

The human science of law enforcement and discipline demonstrates the case that social
science effectively draws in with regulation and legitimate establishments as subjects,
however experiences issues in coming to across the disciplinary lines (which applies to
statute the other way around). The shortfall of similar statute has been prominent in the field,
and may be made sense of by its control through human science’s modernization project that
was of substantially less interest and left no place for the legitimate comparativist.
Nonetheless, disciplinary control by human science likewise avoided inside and out
investigations of criminal regulation and convention to a impressive degree, since such an
undertaking requires legal advisors, and in specific the intriguing species among them, near
legal advisors.

Thusly, despite a great assortment of chronicled and contextual analyses, a more orderly and
really near investigation of the field according to this viewpoint is as yet absent. In any case,
with the modernization project in destruction, new courses are opening up for similar statute
to investigate in which ways law enforcement is connected with social practices and how
corrective regulation enlightens these, and to fill in the holes that the human science of law
enforcement has left.

Critically, these new courses additionally open up possibilities for a more adjusted
interdisciplinary relationship inside the field. After over a hundred years of control by the
task of modernization, human science and regulation can find new spaces where they can
produce connections in the field of criminal regulation and discipline. This will remember
another accentuation for correlation with the point to find contrasts, not consistency and
union. Nonetheless, given the history and custom of the field, we can have confidence that it
will be a productive organization.

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 BIBLIOGRAPHY

 JSTOR
 Hein Online
 Wikipedia
 Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance by Jeffrey T. Ulmer
 Crime and Deviance by Tim Heaton and Tony Lawson
 Fundamentals of Criminal Justice: A Sociological View by Steven E. Barken and
George J. Bryjak

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