New Technology and Criminal Justice

Nowadays there is a lot of technology.

to help out law enforcement.

Some of the most popular techniques

and technology are listed below.

For auto releated crimes the police

have license plate recognition

cameras to run the numbers againt

the missing ones to see if they get any

hits. Another technique is Shoe

Printing. They compare the shoes and

size of the feet with the shoe prints

that they find at the scene of the

crime. Making "The Perfect Crime"

something that only happens in

movies and books.

A commen technique for gun releated crimes is Shot Spotting.

Shot Spotting is something that picks

up sound waves of a muzzle100 blast to

narrow down the exact coordinates and

forwarding the information to 911

centers. Detectives and Crime Scene

Investigators use 3-D technique to

"redo" the crime scene, to see exactley

what had happened. They can now see

where the bullet should have been and

thats helping out the forscenic people

see what happened.

Everyone loves a good car chase.

Well that just got a whole shorter for some people because cars are now putting OnStar in their cars.

A cop can ask an OnStar operator to

slow down the car that they are in

pursuit to 5 miles an100 hour so they are

alot easier to catch.Criminal Justice is

the study of domestic and international

structures, functions, behaviors, and

public policies related to the getting,

prosecuting, sentencing, and putting the offender in jail.

Your Criminal Justice degree will

prepare you for a job in the Criminal

justice feild, its not a degree that

involves specific job training, instead

its the study of how justice is

distributed in our goverment system

and internationaly.

Steps in the criminal justice process

1.