justice system
Where trials happen
The justice system is the network of institutions—courts, judges, prosecutors, police, prisons—that enforces laws and administers punishment.
The term often carries implicit critique: The justice system failed her.
People distinguish between the justice system as ideal and the criminal justice system as flawed reality.
He's been caught up in the justice system for years.
- court of lawJudicial body for disputes
- trialJudicial examination of claims
- warrantFormal authorization document
- judgeOne who decides
- police departmentOfficial law enforcement body
defendant · sentencing · court · due process · rehabilitation · human rights · legal code · judiciary · presumption of innocence · bail hearing · lawyer · legal aid · parole board · wrongful conviction · accountability · proportionality · death penalty · equality before the law
- Canadian GovernmentHouse of Commons, Senate, Prime Minister, federal government, parliamentary democracy
- French LawNapoleonic Code, magistrates, judiciary, civil courts, criminal courts
- social studiescivics, social studies, maps, economics, community
- civicsballot, election, ballots, Bill of Rights, branches of government
- criminal justicearrest, jail, court, prison, crime
- lawlaw, lawyer, lawyers, attorney, attorneys
justice systemvigilantism
Extralegal enforcement by civilians
mob justice · lynch mob · vigilante justice · kangaroo court · taking the law into one's own hands
justice systemanarchy
Disorder from absent authority
lawlessness · chaos · state of nature · failed state · impunity
justice systemtyranny
Oppressive, absolute governance
injustice · police state · oppression · corruption · show trial
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