Criminal Justice System

Within every country there must be a system created to maintain as much peace as well as order within the country. This is done by laws and rules. There is the system called Criminal Justice Systems. Within this system it states: “a series of organizations involved in apprehending, prosecuting, defending, sentencing, and jailing those involved in crimes - including law enforcement, attorneys, judges, courts of law, prisons(Dictionary.com, 2014).” There are many levels that are brought to light in order for each country to create their Criminal Justice Legal System those suites their country. Some are based on traditions while others are created on history. Therefor with the understanding of what the Criminal Justice System is as well as what

The beauty of Greece is what people are going there to see. People do not think of the laws when they are traveling from country to country. However, Greece is much like any other country, they have rules and laws that are to be followed and those that do not abide by the laws will be punished. Greece uses the Civil Law Tradition for their court of law with the Procedural Process. The history of the law on Greece is prevalent in continental Europe; which has evolved from the Roman Law and Justinian’s Corpus Juris Civilis as well as codes such as the Napoleonic Code Civil of 1804 and the German civil code. German civil law is the one that has most affected countries that use the Greek legal system (Kelemenis & Company,

Since then CCP has undergone various revisions. CCP relies heavily on the principle of the parties’ initiative (i.e. courts do not exercise any case management of the kind known to common law jurisdictions and all procedural steps are to be taken, as a rule, by the parties rather than the court); and on the principle of concentration (i.e. there are no pre-trial proceedings and all allegations and evidence are first submitted at the trial stage) (Kelemenis & Company, 2012).

The (GCCP) also known as the Greek Code of Criminal Procedure; basic statute governing the procedure carried out before Criminal Courts. Numerous provisions of the Greek Constitution -which directly include applicable procedural law-as well as provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights and its Protocols and those of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights complement the GCCP provisions (Anagnostopoulos Criminal Law & Litigation, 2012).

With this section that was written by Walter A. Bordenn, MD in the article named “A history of justice: origins of law and psychiatry” it states