Criminal Justice & Legal
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The history of Law and Criminal Justice dates back to ancient times, from third-millennium B.C. Mesopotamia to the Roman Empire up to the English Magna Carta, the U.S. Constitution, and beyond.
Law...
The Rule of Law in the U.S. is a part of the criminal justice system and comprises the courts, the prosecutors and defense attorneys, and the legal services workers that support them. Civil law is a set of rules and regulations concerned with transactions between individual people; criminal law's rules regulate actions that are dangerous or harmful to society at large. In criminal law cases, prosecutors represent the state against the defendant charged with the crime.
...and Order
Law enforcement, protective and emergency services, and the corrections system provide the "order" in Law and Order. Together with the courts and attorneys, they form the U.S. criminal justice system. Criminal Justice no longer includes public flogging or pillory imprisonment in the town square, but 21st-century technology and increased international conflict have given rise to new criminal justice specialties such as homeland security, emergency preparedness, and information security.
Criminal Justice and Legal/Paralegal Degrees
Criminal Justice and Law are hot careers right now. More specialties and more demand for legal and criminal justice services have resulted in the need for trained professionals in a range of careers. Schools have responded by expanding their degree programs. Most criminal justice programs are offered at the Associate, Bachelor, and Master's degree levels, and many paralegal programs are offered at the Diploma level in addition to Associate's and Bachelor's.
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Source: Wikipedia: Criminal Justice
“I fought the Law and the Law won.”
—Sonny Curtis and The Crickets, 1959
