Community Justice: An Essay By Todd Clear And David Karp

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The reflection paper review for this week’s reading assignment topic “ Community Justice: An Essay” by Todd Clear and David Karp article points out how Jackson Heights community has developed a sanctioning body that has a direct voice in the criminal justice system to determine the outcome of the local offenders that has committed crimes against the people in their community. This proactive approach by the community is due to the community lack of trust between law enforcement, criminal justice system, and the politicians that are suppose to represent the people. In addition, the sanctioning body was able to devise programs within the community to recuperate a percentage of the funds that is spent on the criminals for incarceration and have the money reinvested back in the community through community based rehabilitation programs for the offender and develop the community. This article by Clear and Karp utilize a triangulation core of responsibility with the community-based system that directly correlates between each entity within the community, victim and the offender. All three shares a common bond for partial responsibility to ensure reparation and justice is fulfilled to the utmost …show more content…

However, it might cut down on the court system over loads for these type of offenses and minimize the incarceration rate due to the over population for misdemeanor offenses. This attempt to fix social relations with the community, this is not the fix all to stop criminal behavior throughout our communities in America. The checks and balances in the triangle of community justice will not be able to satisfy all the grievances between the victim and the offender due to human nature indifferences in beliefs and

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