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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.
Name the various components of the corrections system today and describe their functions. Corrections consists of many subunits. There are both state and federal corrections systems. Institutional corrections: prisons and jails and these confine people who have been sentenced by the courts or are awaiting trial in jail. Community corrections: supervises people who are either awaiting trial or have been sentenced by the courts but are living in the community.