Different Perspectives to Analyze the Penal Justice System in Function of Crime Control from Professionals of Social Sciences

Abstract

Penal justice system is made of many agencies that take decisions, agencies of execution of penal decisions, so it’s difficult to understand immediately the relation between them and their position regarding the law itself. This article unifies the ways of looking at the penal justice system in its wholeness and gives different perspectives to analyze it. Different parts of penal justice system raise to us important questions so to have a view of all parts of it, even those hidden, we need to see it from different perspectives. Penal justice system might be seen from different perspectives: its structure, police role, penal decisions phase, common policies of crime control of different institutions or penal procedures foreseen in the penal legislation. To understand penal justice system we need to be familiar with penal legislation, institutional practices but also to know the so-called “system models” and management styles which are some of more suggested perspectives to be used by social sciences professionals.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2013.v4n4p249