Criminal Justice

Criminal justice is the delivery of justice to those who have committed crimes. The criminal justice system is a series of government agencies and institutions. Goals include the rehabilitation of offenders, preventing other crimes, and moral support for victims. The primary institutions of the criminal justice system are the police, prosecution and defense lawyers, the courts and prisons.

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Cato Institute · 14 November 2024 English

After President Joe Biden signed an executive order instructing the government to research and develop central bank digital currency (CBDC), nearly every agency responded with public reports. The one outlier …


Cato Institute · 14 November 2024 English

Earlier this week, the Cato Institute published Defending Globalization: Facts and Myths about the Global Economy and its Fundamental Humanity, a book I edited with Scott Lincicome. Over the past …


Cato Institute · 14 November 2024 English

You can't go long reading about higher education before coming across a lament about cuts in state funding for higher education, often called state disinvestment. There's just one problem--as documented …


Cato Institute · 14 November 2024 English

The goal of the 2025 tax extensions should be to keep tax rates low and meet calls for additional pro-growth tax cuts, such as a lower corporate tax rate and …


Cato Institute · 14 November 2024 English

President-elect Trump is promising to slash both legal and illegal immigration during his second term in office. He also wants to deport millions of immigrants who have entered the country …


Cato Institute · 14 November 2024 English

Once in a while a new book in religious studies comes out with a bold thesis, challenging old assumptions and raising some eyebrows. The Islamic Secular, a thick, dense, and …


Cato Institute · 13 November 2024 English

For nearly 90 years, a widespread misconception has shaped how Americans view Social Security. Many believe that their payroll taxes are saved in a trust fund, to be drawn down …


Urban Institute · 13 November 2024 English

This brief examines how four community colleges in the Advancing Community Equity and Upward Mobility (ACE-UP) Community of Practice engage with employers to promote equitable access to and support along …

higher rates, even when they have markers of criminal justice involvement (Decker et al. 2014). Once hired


Cato Institute · 13 November 2024 English

California voters decisively defeated an attempt to expand rent control, voters in eight of ten states looked favorably on abortion rights, school choice fared poorly, and Coloradans voted to impose …


The South Centre · 13 November 2024

The Supreme Court found that in the absence in the Bill of mitigatory measures -as allowed by the TRIPS Agreement- and of a working definition of the term “microorganism”, there …

governance structures, convoluted fiscal and criminal justice systems and struggling tax administrations


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