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The Structure of Criminal Justice. The phrase criminal justice system refers to a collection of federal, state, and local public agencies that deal with the crime problem. These agencies process suspects, defendants, and convicted offenders and are interdependent insofar as the decisions of one agency affect other agencies.
Retribution does not exist in the criminal justice system. What does exist in a criminal justice system is punishment, and using the term retribution for the word punishment is a perversion of the definition of retribution. Even the etymology the latin word retribuo I pay you back is different than punishment.