"Model Countries"

  China

Both China and U.S justice system are strong in that they have a court system and organizations based on police enforcement and correctional facilities which play a great role in preventing the proliferation of crime. Other point is that the justice system has a strong defense in terms of power and money and thus the justice system is able to gather evidence and enforce law (Dammer & Albanese, 2014). However, the two countries differ in terms of their weakness in that in China, there is no independent judiciary and this imposes many challenges since officials are controlled by impunity. Second, the justice system is controlled by communist party and thus there are problems when it comes to the implementation of law (Dammer & Albanese, 2014). On the other hand, U.S weaknesses are apparent in socioeconomic status.  Poor people in U.S justice system are biased and they are given longer prison sentences than White-collar crimes. Second, there is a racial bias where nonwhite defendants face racial profiling, discriminatory sentencing and unfair police targeting (Dammer & Albanese, 2014).

 

  Both countries can eliminate the weakness through implementing some important measures. First, China should create the rule of law in order to have constitutionalism, democracy and freedom. U.S justice system should focus on leadership development and at this point, judges should think of cultural competency training and cultural law traditions (Dammer & Albanese, 2014).

 

If I were a political leader in my community, I would reduce crime through implementing rehabilitation. This method will not only reduce the higher rate of incapacitation but it will also change the offender behavior and prevent illegal behaviors (Dammer & Albanese, 2014).  Since many offender commit crime due to mental problems, the method will help in understanding the root cause of illegal acts and offer a therapeutic treatment which will reduce the criminal behaviors.

 

Reference

Dammer, H. R., & Albanese, J. S. (2014). Comparative criminal justice systems.