criminal justice

noun

1. the system of law enforcement, involving police, lawyers, courts, and corrections, used for all stages of criminal proceedings and punishment.

Example Sentences

The proposals would touch most parts of the criminal justice system, including policing and parole.

From Washington Post

Through her stories, Brooks avoids a didactic, finger-waving lecture on the virtues or failings of the criminal justice system.

From Washington Post

A reporter shared the findings of this investigation with more than a dozen state and national experts in criminal justice, labor law, municipal finance and police accountability, including five who studied or worked with police union contracts.

From ProPublica

The fact San Diego law enforcement has access to the software at all is raising alarm bells in criminal justice circles.

From Voice of San Diego

With $350 million put toward the new Justice Accelerator Fund over the next five years, the organization will focus on criminal justice advocacy.

From TechCrunch

Steps can be taken to protect people with ID when they are involved with the criminal justice system.

From The Daily Beast

The contrast with the Wilson grand jury is a stunning illustration of the racial double standards in criminal justice.

From The Daily Beast

No wonder criminal-justice reform is no longer the sole concern of balladeers and bleeding hearts.

From The Daily Beast

Other less obvious areas of potential agreement are criminal-justice reform and voting rights.

From The Daily Beast

Neither Michelle Nunn nor David Perdue, the two major Senate candidates in Georgia, talk about criminal justice reform.

From The Daily Beast

They were strictly forbidden from intermeddling, under any pretext, with the discharge of civil or criminal justice.

From Project Gutenberg

In 1770 Sergeant Glynn, in Parliament, moved for an inquiry into the administration of criminal justice.

From Project Gutenberg

Everyone here is going to have to be processed through the criminal justice system.

From Project Gutenberg

We see all the executive, all the civil and criminal justice of the country seized on by him.

From Project Gutenberg

The knowledge of this order would help a great deal in the administration of criminal justice.

From Project Gutenberg