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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.
The criminal law is there not only to punish and control the offender, but to offer him or her a considerable measure of protection through a genuinely judicial system of punishment and control. These different aspects of the purposes of criminal law will be examined under three heads: protection of the offender, punish- ment, and protection of the community.