The points I will cover in this essay are: Summary of the US justice system, standard organizational system, and the problems and challenges each component system faces. The three components of US law enforcement, courts, organization and prison administration work diligently and effortlessly to ensure optimal fairness to a large extent. How the three components of the U.S. justice system ensure fairness is sometimes questionable. The three parts of the criminal justice system operate together under the rule of law and the primary means of maintaining the rule of law within society. Now is the time to study the organization and administration of each component system: What is the standard organizational structure for police, courts, and corrections? Police Organizational Structure: The following seven elements are the key dimensions of a police organizational structure. (Adapted from Langworthy and Maguire): 1-Vertical differentiation: the nature of the hierarchy, including the number of levels of command and the social distance between layers.2-Professional differentiation: the difference between the specialized professional skills of employees.3-Differentiation functional: the degree to which the organization divides its work into specialized areas. The larger the organization, the more differentiated functional divisions there are. 4-Spatial differentiation: the spread of the organization within its jurisdiction. Police agencies with a single headquarters are less spatially diverse than those with districts, substations, and other offices located within neighborhoods. 5-Administrative intensity: the percentage of employees assigned to administrative support functions (such as human resources or IT) as op. ..... middle of paper ......:Many problems are being corrected, but these problems are not addressed by the media as often as those of the police and courts. Some of the problems are: 1- Elderly prisoners: this type of prisoners need some extra services, for example regarding their health and the ability to help themselves to do some basic things. 2- In active prison gangs: Prison gangs are a well-known problem and they even make movies about it. 3- Sexual harassment and rape are another problem, especially young and weak inmates who could be victims of such crimes, ethical consideration towards this problem will put young and weak inmates in a cell. Further ethical issues in the field of probation: from the potentially conflicting role that arises from the two main roles traditionally assigned to probation officers: that of helping agent and that of guarantor of legal conditions .
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