Corruption in Law Enforcement Agencies – Views from within the Criminal Justice System: Results from a German Corruption Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
MEERA MATHEW

The victims of crime are those who have formerly endured injury or are possibly suffering as an outcome of crimes having been committed. The direct family or dependants of the direct victims, who are harmfully affected, are also included within the meaning of the term “Victims”. The predicament of the victims does not finish with the crime but it persists. It may even increase, following the crimes; since they have to face the rigors of the actuality, such as deficient support system, dearth of social backing, and sense of anxiety. They also experience the intricacy of police inquiry, magisterial investigation and criminal trial. The impact of victimization on different kinds of victims due to different types of crimes has been varied such as physical, psychological and financial. Through this paper writer has endeavored to check the situation of victims of crime in India and the criminal justice system. It is apparent that the desolation of the victims have not been effectively addressed or even gone out of contemplation. Victims are disregarded, may, forgotten. The paper also stresses the need to provide support to crime victims. The author of the present paper has also recommended some of the imperative steps that are to be implemented by the law enforcement agencies in India to improve the position of victims in the criminal justice system.


Author(s):  
Jordan C. Pickering

PurposeThroughout the last decade, a number of empirical studies have assessed the effectiveness of body-worn cameras (BWCs) among law enforcement agencies across the United States. The purpose of this paper is to examine officers' perceptions regarding the impact this technology has had on police-community relations, as well as the working relationship between police and other actors in the criminal justice system (e.g. prosecutors, jurors).Design/methodology/approachThe author conducted focus groups with officers (n = 89) from two local law enforcement agencies in California that had adopted BWCs in recent years. Participating officers discussed advantages and disadvantages they associated with BWCs, as well as how BWCs have impacted their relationship with the public and justice system personnel.FindingsOfficers recognized advantages to using BWCs, including the potential for positive changes in police behavior and the ability to protect officers against false citizen complaints. Officers also identified a number of disadvantages (or consequences) they associate with BWCs, such as the depreciation of credibility behind an officer's word and the impact of video footage on prosecutorial decision-making.Originality/valuePrior studies have gathered officers' perceptions regarding BWCs, but very few have assessed whether and how the use of this technology by law enforcement influences other actors within the criminal justice system. The findings from this study may prompt further empirical consideration regarding BWCs, especially with regard to whether police use of this technology significantly impacts citizens' trust in the police and how their use may impact prosecutorial and juror decision-making.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 609
Author(s):  
Lailatul Nur Hasanah ◽  
Sri Endah Wahyuningsih

This study aims to determine and analyze the application of the principle of simple justice Rapid Simple Fee in the criminal justice system in the State court of Pati. As well as to identify and explain the barriers and solutions simple application of the principle of justice Rapid Simple Fee in the judicial system in State court of Pati. And to identify and explain the contribution principle is simple justice Rapid Simple Fee in the criminal justice system to reform the criminal justice system in the future. This study uses empirical juridical approach to analysis of the application of the principle of judicial issues simple, quick and inexpensive in the criminal justice system in the State court of Pati. Specifications research is descriptive analysis. With data collection techniques are primary and secondary data and research literature, analyzed using qualitative. The problem is analyzed with the theory of law enforcement and progressive legal theory. The results of this study showed that every judge shall comply with the laws that have been set ie power Act No. 48 of 2009 and Act No. 8 of 1981. Constraints in principle to simple justice Rapid Simple Fee is the human resources of the apparatus law enforcement, lack law enforcement and courtroom facilities, absence of the parties or witnesses. The solution is to determine the court calendar, giving sanction to the litigants or witnesses who have been called State court of Pati. Contributions in future expected law enforcement qualified for handling the case, mutual cooperation between law enforcement agencies and is able to imitate the criminal justice system in developed countries such as settling disputes out of court with mediation mechanism penal (penal mediation), restorative justice, diversion in juvenile justice and other forms that thrive in the community. It is considered necessary as part of the criminal law reform. Contributions in future expected law enforcement qualified for handling the case, mutual cooperation between law enforcement agencies and is able to imitate the criminal justice system in developed countries such as settling disputes out of court with mediation mechanism penal (penal mediation), restorative justice, diversion in juvenile justice and other forms that thrive in the community. It is considered necessary as part of the criminal law reform. Contributions in future expected law enforcement qualified for handling the case, mutual cooperation between law enforcement agencies and is able to imitate the criminal justice system in developed countries such as settling disputes out of court with mediation mechanism penal (penal mediation), restorative justice, diversion in juvenile justice and other forms that thrive in the community. It is considered necessary as part of the criminal law reform.Keywords: Principle of Simple Justice, Rapid Simple Fee In Criminal Justice System in Pati Court


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Vani Kurnia ◽  
Sahuri Lasmadi ◽  
Elizabeth Siregar

ABSTRAK Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis bagaimana tugas dan kewenangan jaksa sebagai penyidik dalam tindak pidana korupsi dan menganalisis bagaimana tugas dan kewenangan jaksa sebagai penyidik dalam Tindak Pidana Korupsi di masa yang akan datang. Metode Penelitian yang digunakan adalah yuridis normatif. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah 1)Bahwa dari segi yuridis, jaksa memiliki wewenang dalam melakukan penyidikan tindak pidana korupsi, namun kewenangan masing-masing sub sistem dalam sistem peradilan pidana tindak pidana korupsi harus diperjelas karena sangat menentukan sekali agar kepastian hukum dan kesebandingan hukum dapat tercapai. 2)Bahwa kewenangan penyidikan tindak pidana korupsi yang dimiliki oleh jaksa saat ini berbenturan dengan sistem peradilan pidana yang berlaku di Indonesia. Jika kewenangan penyidikan oleh kejaksaan masih dipertahankan maka terkesan tidak adanya koordinasi antar lembaga penegak hukum karena hampir dalam setiap tahapan penegakan hukum tindak pidana korupsi yaitu tahap penyelidikan, penyidikan, penuntutan dan pelaksanaan putusan pengadilan atau eksekusi, dimiliki oleh lembaga kejaksaan. ABSTRACT This article aims to find out and analyze how the duties and powers of prosecutors as investigators in criminal acts of corruption and analyze the duties and powers of prosecutors as investigators in corruption in the future. The research method used is normative juridical. The results are 1) Whereas from a juridical perspective, the prosecutor has the authority to carry out investigations into criminal acts of corruption, however, the authority of each sub-system in the criminal justice system for corruption must be clarified because it is very decisive so that legal certainty and legal equivalence can be achieved. 2) Whereas the prosecutor's current authority to investigate criminal acts of corruption clashes with the criminal justice system in force in Indonesia. If the investigative authority is maintained by the prosecutor's office, it seems that there is no coordination between law enforcement agencies because almost every stage of law enforcement on corruption, namely the investigation, investigation, prosecution and implementation of court decisions or executions, is owned by the prosecutor's office.


Temida ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murugesan Srinivasan ◽  
Mathew Eyre

Until 1970s the victims of crime were a forgotten entity in the criminal justice system. The attitude began to change as the discipline of victimology came into its own. The past few decades have witnessed a revolution in the way society deals with victims of crime. Many countries have now recognized the need to provide services to victims to help them recover from the effects of crime and assist them in their dealings with the criminal justice system. But in India, there has not been any significant improvement in the position of victims in the criminal justice system. The present paper has attempted to examine the position of victims of crime in India and the criminal justice system. The paper also emphasizes the need to provide assistance to crime victims. The authors of the present paper have also suggested some of the immediate steps that are to be implemented by the law enforcement agencies in India to improve the position of victims in the criminal justice system. .


2001 ◽  
Vol 35 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 354-379
Author(s):  
Simha F. Landau ◽  
Leslie Sebba ◽  
David L. Weisbu ◽  

Public attention is increasingly being focused on law enforcement practices with regard to senior public figures suspected of committing crimes. Indeed, it is only natural for special sensitivity to be shown in relation to the behavior of public figures in general, and senior public figures in particular. Their authority, social connections, and access to material and other state or public resources, locating them with the “power elite” — or at least the “sub-elites”1— provide them with unusual power in modern society. It could even be argued that their position contains a “constant structural temptation” for misuse or abuse of this power. Even if public figures are believed to be honest and of impeccable character, it is clear that they have opportunities for abuse of their authority that must be taken into account by law enforcement agencies. Moreover, public trust is an important asset on the part of public figures and civil servants. Accordingly, it might be argued that the criminal justice system should perceive breaches of this trust as more severe than similar offenses committed by private citizens.


Author(s):  
Ingrid V. Eagly

After a sustained period of hypercriminalization, the United States criminal justice system is undergoing reform. Congress has reduced federal sentencing for drug crimes, prison growth is slowing, and some states are even closing prisons. Low-level crimes have been removed from criminal law books, and attention is beginning to focus on long-neglected issues such as bail and criminal court fines. Still largely overlooked in this era of ambitious reform, however, is the treatment of immigrants in the criminal justice system. An unprecedented focus on immigration enforcement targeted at “felons, not families” has resulted in a separate system of punitive treatment reserved for noncitizens, which includes crimes of migration, longer periods of pretrial detention, harsher criminal sentences, and the almost certain collateral consequence of lifetime banishment from the United States. For examples of state-level solutions to this predicament, this Essay turns to a trio of bold criminal justice reforms from California that (1) require prosecutors to consider immigration penalties in plea bargaining; (2) change the state definition of “misdemeanor” from a maximum sentence of a year to 364 days; and (3) instruct law enforcement agencies to not hold immigrants for deportation purposes unless they are first convicted of serious crimes. Together, these new laws provide an important window into how state criminal justice systems could begin to address some of the unique concerns of noncitizen criminal defendants.


2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 418
Author(s):  
Eva Achjani Zulfa

AbstrakHandling problems through brat children and children who have problems with the law have occurred again when some kids sticking a gamble being arrested at near Soekarno Hatta Airport areas then processed into the judicial process. Diversion is a form of change the process by which a program can only take place on hold pre-adjudication in the criminal justice system. Forms of transfer or diversion of this case are indeed associated with the authority possessed discretion of law enforcement officers. Giddiness has appeared in the process of implementation of diversion by law enforcement officials, the search for forms of application of the criminal case handlingchild has become a growing discourse management. Policy taken toward the institution of criminal diversion not only becomes demand for law enforcement officers, but also must be institutionalized through plain legal mechanisms. It becomes author's concern to create more certain procedures to brighten solve on deviant children in this way


Author(s):  
I Dewa Gede Dana Sugama

This study discusses about Inadequacy Corruption Eradication Commission In Issuing Warrant Termination of Investigation In Corruption Case. The Commission is authorized to issue a warrant termination of the investigation and to determine the actions taken when the Commission which investigated corruption Commission was not enough evidence. The conclusion of this study is, first Corruption Eradication Commission is authorized to issue an Order for Termination of Investigation in accordance with Article 40 of Law No. 30 Year 2002 about Corruption Eradication Commission, consideration of the logic of juridical is that the Commission is not a core law enforcement within the criminal justice system and just as independent institutions that can be dismissed if there is no corruption in our country. The arrangement of Article 40 of Law No. 30 of 2002 is prudential or attitude of prudence principle for the Commission to work accurately, efficiently and professionally


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeriy Terehin ◽  
Viktor Chernyshov

The issues of setting goals, planning and forming a system of indicators of the effectiveness and efficiency of the penal system are considered. The criteria for determining the goals-tasks that are adequate to the public goals of the system are justified. Quantitative indicators corresponding to the criteria were developed, based on the contribution of the criminal justice System to reducing the socio-economic losses of society from recidivism. The contribution of the system is determined by changes in the criminal potential of convicted persons during the period of serving a sentence under a court sentence. Criminal potentials are estimated by predictive values of the aggregate of three groups of characteristics of the criminal potential of convicts, determined by the stages of the cycle of recidivism. The practical results of the use of sound methods and developed tools are based on the use of a significant amount of empirical data on the institutions of the criminal justice system and its systematic expert and statistical analysis. The monograph is a generalization and development of the works carried out by the authors during 2012-2017 in the process of preparing masters of Management for the penal system. It is intended for managers and specialists of the bodies and institutions of the Criminal Justice System, researchers, teachers of higher educational institutions who train specialists for law enforcement agencies.


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