The criminal justice assembly line is an accurate metaphor of how ...

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The criminal justice assembly line is an accurate metaphor of how the process of justice works. Explain why this is so.
 
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Question 2

High levels of coercion produce criminality. Coercion that involves pressures beyond an individual's control, such as economic and social pressure caused by unemployment or poverty, is termed:
 
  a. covert coercion. b. latent coercion.
   c. interpersonal coercion. d. impersonal coercion.

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Answer to Question 1

Decision making and discretion mark each stage of the system; thus, the criminal justice system screens out a great majority of cases before trial. At every stage of the criminal justice process, a decision is made by an agency of criminal justice whether to send the case further down the line or kick it from the system. Many cases are dismissed at each stage of the processinvestigatio n, arrest, charging, grand jury, trialso relatively few cases actually go through the entire formal justice process.

Answer to Question 2

d

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