Your text outlines ten purposes of courts. State five of them.

What will be an ideal response?


Answers may include any of the following:

To do justice
To appear to do justice
To provide a forum where disputes between people can be resolved justly and peacefully
To censure wrongdoing
Incapacitation, or the removal or restriction of the freedom of those found to have violated criminal laws
Punishment, or the imposition of a penalty for criminal wrongdoing
Rehabilitation, or the attempt to "correct" the personality and behavior of convicted offenders through educational, vocational, or therapeutic treatment and to return them to society as law-abiding citizens
General deterrence, or the attempt to prevent people in general from engaging in crime by punishing specific individuals and making examples of them
To determine legal status
To protect individual citizens against arbitrary government action

Criminal Justice

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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