CRIMINAL LAW

Criminal law is the body of law dealing with crimes and their punishment. Criminal law is a broad concept and for the most part means dealing with those in society that has broken the law and is therefore deemed criminals. Criminal can be used to define such a broad spectrum of offenses. Criminal laws are set in place by lawmakers to protect ... Read Moresociety and people that are obeying the laws established by our society. The constitution contains safeguards of our rights that were meant to protect the law abiding citizens of the United States, as the constitution assumes lawfulness. The back log of criminal cases is a tough issue to tackle or solve. The court system is overwhelmed as is the corrections system but there are few ideas to remedy that that everyone can agree on. Some of the minor offenses could be discarded and some say that legalization and regulation of narcotics may be part of the solution to the overload of cases. I tend to disagree; the position of drugs may be a losing battle but not something I feel we should abandon as it sends the wrong message to the children. Criminal law is going to remain overloaded in my opinion, the one relief I can agree with is to shorten the process of the appeals on death penalty cases. The process itself takes too long to be an affective deterrent anyways to other criminals. If we had a swift system of punishment in place this could potentially unclog the court systems a bit. The people that have already been sentenced to death should have that carried out pretty quickly.