I. STEPS IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROCESS A. The Decision Network 1. The Decision Network transforms free citizens into, suspects then into defendants, into convicted offenders, probationers, inmates or parolees, leading into their eventual discharge from sentence and their return to society. 2. The full scale network includes a number of major steps about crime, suspects, and offenders, which in turn, are linked to different agencies that are meant to flow into one another. II. IVESTIGATION, ARREST, …showed first 75 words of 3876 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3876 total…Efficiency is the only goal of the criminal justice system. The governmental separation of the powers of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches supports our political philosophy of pluralism and freedom, so the mix of agencies and personnel serves values that we espouse as well. 4. “A more uniform, better organized system could probably be achieved only by diminishing citizen control and forfeiting local autonomy and some individual rights.” (P. 107, para. First full paragraph, lines 3-5)