There was nothing in it but the bench on which she was sitting, the book-shelf above it, and a lectern in the corner. Meanwhile the officiating clergy had got into their vestments, and the priest and deacon came out to the lectern, which stood in the forepart of the church.
The increased safety measures in Americaâs post-9/11 criminal justice system have been most evident through the increase in surveillance and preventative measures in its homeland security proceedings.hortly after its inception, the campâs prisoner numbers surged when the U.S. Governmentâs Justice Department advised that the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp fall outside of the U.S. legal jurisdiction; prisoners captured in Afghanistan began to be moved there that same year.
As a result, victims sometimes came to believe that they had fewer rights than the criminals who had injured them. In addition, some victims became so alienated from the criminal justice process that prosecutors had difficulty persuading them to testify at trial. This environment began to change in the 1970s with the establishment of victim compensation funds. Not until the 1980s, however, did a national movement for victims' rights spark wholesale changes in the criminal justice system.