 | Chapter Objectives
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After completing this chapter, you should be able to:
- Describe how the type of crime routinely presented by the media compares with crime routinely committed.
- Identify institutions of social control and explain what makes criminal justice an institution of social control.
- Summarize how the criminal justice system responds to crime.
- Explain why criminal justice in the United States is sometimes considered a nonsystem.
- Point out major differences between Packer's crime control and due process models.
- Describe the costs of criminal justice in the United States and compare those costs among federal, state, and local governments.
- Explain how myths about crime and criminal justice affect the criminal justice system.
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