Global Perspective Assessment

Global Perspective assessment
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Introduction
The criminal justice system in America is quite elaborate, vast and expansive. It is not just the courts that constitute the criminal justice system contrary to popular notion. Rather, it is an all inclusive system which encompasses the courts, the correctional facilities, law enforcers and all those other debarments involved in maintenance of the law. Recently, there have been significant changes in the world with the adoption of globalization. While countries such as America continue to exist independently, they cannot wholly afford to ignore the impacts of globalization. The globalization aspect has had an effect on the operations of the justice system in America. Ideally, the criminal justice system is supposed to restrict itself to the happenings that are of criminal in nature within its territories (Merriam, 2013). However, with globalization the criminal justice system has had to cast its net wider to ensure that it accommodates even more emerging crimes. Globalization has meant that countries have to be more inclusive and as such encompass crimes that come as a result of globalization. This discussion will look at global perspective that globalization has had on the criminal justice system in America.
Backgrounder
Although there are no crimes that are specific to a certain region, there is, ordinarily, the nature of crimes that each territory is used to dealing with. For example, until recently, America did not experience many terror crimes (Merriam, 2013). On the other hand, in the Middle East, this has always been a menace in the region. Currently, terrorism has been classified as a global threat with each country regardless of the location facing imminent danger. With globalization, the nature of crimes committed has greatly evolved. The collusion of transnational cartels in crimes has made it more difficult and brought about the need for governments to collaborate to combat crime. In America, it is estimated that since the onset of globalization, the rate of crime has skyrocketed significantly (Interpol, 2013). As a result of globalization, some of the crimes have become too complicated for a single criminal justice system to handle solely. As a result, American criminal justice system has had to realign itself and collaborate with other international stakeholders to combat crime.
While the realignment of the American criminal justice is very necessary as countries take concerted effort to contain crime, this has not come without its fair share of challenges. With a keen study on the emerging trends of crime, one notices that the dimensions of crime have changed significantly (Interpol, 2013). They are very complex in nature and highly dynamic. This makes prediction very difficult and hence preparation in advance becomes a daunting task for the criminal justice system. There is the aspect of use of technology to execute crime which has often caught the criminal justice unawares.
America is one of the greatest powers of the world. The phrase ‘great power’ is all encompassing touching on technology, economic strength and living standards. Many countries of the world have often looked up to America for gu...