JOURNAL 2-11

Week 1 Journal Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Week 1 Journal This reflection assesses the amount of consideration that should be given to a person’s background or life circumstances when decisions are made at critical points in the criminal justice system. Decisions on aspects such as arrest, specific charges, decision to prosecute, sentencing, and re-entry plan normally make considerations into various offender characteristics. The principal objective behind assessing the backgrounds is to help with avenues of rehabilitating the offenders, punishing them, and protecting society effectively (Gohara, 2018). However, checking backgrounds has been criticized with a faction believing that it brings discrimination in implementing rehabilitation or punishment strategies for individual offenders. As such, it is important to understand the scope to which background checks can be validated. Stakeholders in the criminal justice system should weigh the circumstances under which background checks can be valid or not. That is because using background checks can instill equity and fairness in punishing or rehabilitating individuals (Gohara, 20...