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The Criminal Justice System

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The criminal justice system comprises the three stages that respond to crime: policing, the courts, and corrections.

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An arrest, a trial, and a sentence are three separate institutions with different rules and personnel.

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The stages act on those who reach them, and most offenses never enter the system at all.