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Chapter Objectives: What You Should Learn
- Identify the theme on which this textbook builds.
- Highlight the differences between the individual-rights and public-order perspectives.
- Explain society's need for a system of order maintenance, and detail the role of law within that system.
- Describe the personal sacrifices necessitated by public order.
- Expound upon the relationship of criminal justice to social justice and other wider notions of equity and fairness.
- Explain the structure of the criminal justice system in terms of its major components.
- Describe the differences between the conflict and consensus models of the criminal justice system.
- Describe the process of American criminal justice, including the stages of criminal case processing.
- Explain the meaning of due process of law, and identify where due process guarantees can be found in the American legal system.
- Explain how multiculturalism and diversity present special challenges to, and opportunities for, the American system of criminal justice.
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