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Special Report: Crime and security – trends and solutions (ISSN 17414474)
The criminal justice system struggles to cope
To combat crime, societies need effective and efficient criminal justice systems. These can be defined as the combination of institutions required to detect and arrest criminals, hold them in safe and secure prisons, gather evidence, formulate charges, bring the accused to a fair trial with legal representation, and ultimately implement the sentence of the courts. A proper criminal justice system will also oversee the prison system; it should provide opportunities for former offenders to be rehabilitated and, on release, to leave the criminal way of life and make play a positive role in society.
- Executive summary
- The homicide rate: fluctuating, but too high
- Organised crime remains resilient
- Crime remains a profitable business
- A heroin epidemic in the United States?
- Colombian cocaine production surges ahead
- Prison reform is urgently needed
- White collar crime: the battle against ‘grand corruption’
- The criminal justice system struggles to cope