WRITER: This assignment requires turabian style and citations. See attachment for more details Course: Introduction to Criminal Procedure Discussion Board Posts Request (DB posts are blog type posts that students use to interact with one another, commenting on each others post). Word Count: 300-500 (going over 500 words will cause a deduction in grading) Topic: What is the focus of the criminal justice system: Restorative Justice or Criminal Rights? Assignment Instruction: 1: Based on your practical and educational experience, what is the focus of the criminal justice system: restorative justice, or criminal rights? Give specific examples. 2: Can these seemingly competing perspectives be better harmonized? Things to integrate into the post: Incorporate the sources and relevance of constitutional rights in criminal procedures. Distinguish the criminal procedure protections embodied in the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Explain how the Bible plays a role in criminal procedure. Information provided by the Professor: Competing perspectives in the criminal justice system are discussed, including certain Biblical Perspectives, one of which is restorative justice. Restorative justice focuses on restoring the victim by making the offender compensate the victim for the wrong and adding some punishment. Numbers 5:67 highlights this principle very well. “Say to the Israelites: When a man or woman wrongs another in any way[a]and so is unfaithful to the Lord, that person is guilty and must confess the sin he has committed. He must make full restitution for his wrong, add one fifth to it and give it all to the person he has wronged” (NIV 1984). There is also a secondary emphasis of reintegrating offenders back into society. ??The topic of this course is Criminal Procedure. By nature, criminal procedure is rights-based. This is because much of the law comes from the Constitution, which was drafted to enumerate the powers of government. This limits government behavior to only those listed powers, but the Constitution also clearly lays out some rights (but not all) of states and citizens, particularly certain criminal procedure rights. As such, it can be said that criminal procedure focuses on the offenders rights and government behavior. Provide at least 1 textbook reference, 1 scholarly reference, and 1 Scripture to support your answer. Textbook reading and reference: Chapter 1 Worrall, J. L. (2015). Criminal procedure: From first contact to appeal. (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN: 9780133494952.
