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Alejandro Yanez Romero

Professor Best

English 106A

10 March 2017

Criminal Justice Genre Analysis

Criminal Justice journals are used by people in the field to help identify things such

things as what criminals relate to and the reasons. Another thing criminal justice journals can be

used is to inform the public about such things as new laws or current crime rates. For example

from ordinary people to higher executive officials like Presidents watch or read the news to be

informed about their surroundings. The newspapers are a form of criminal justice journals

because it has such things like news about new laws that have passed or the latest crime

committed of the day.

The Criminal Justice Magazine is published by the American Bar Association, Criminal

Justice Section quarterly through the year. The Criminal Justice magazine is free to the ABA,

Criminal Justice section but the symposium articles are free to the public. The main readers of

this journal vary because it has so many different topics. For example I took two different issues

from this journal that may interest two different kind of people. The first one was the spring

edition of 2017, Dazed and Confused by Bruce E. Reinhart and the article talks about the new

drug laws that have passed and in which parts of the United States and answers other questions

about the new marijuana law, for example these: is marijuana legal anywhere in the United

States? Will the federal government prosecute you for selling it? Can doctors prescribe it? Can a

lawyer help clients set up and run a marijuana business? How must a lawyer counsel a client who

wants to be in the marijuana business? For this kind of an article people like marijuana
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consumers, marijuana businesses, and people who want to be informed about the marijuana topic

will read this. People that write these articles are higher educated such as Bruce E. Reinhart who

is an attorney for law.

For this exact article people read it because for example people who are concerned about this

new law, this article may possibly answer any questions they might have.

Another issue I picked from the Criminal Justice Magazine was the spring edition of

2016, Finding Protection Under US Immigration Law. This article covers about the

immigration topic that involves the whole country, I have noticed that this journal is based on

current events. With the whole presidential election there is a lot of doubts and questions with the

whole immigration law, this journal helps those with questions understand it. I believe that other

readers are such as lawyers and attorneys that may need some reference to their practice or

possible ongoing and future cases. This issues goes further than the immigration law and has

feature stories about other legal problems like describing the 6th amendment in, The

Constitutional Right to Counsel at Bail Hearings by Alexander Bunin or read about the way

prisoners are held like written by Alicia Vasquez and Todd Bussert, How Federal Prisoners Are

Placed.

Some common features about this journal is that they both have the same layout with

their stories and have reliable writers behind its articles. From having a table of contents to a

scientific style of a peer reviewed article they are similar. The only thing that these two issues

were missing was some type of charts that can possibly show the levels of marijuana

consumption or immigration in the past 10 years or so. The types of articles that these journals

have are current topics during that time period, since it is a quarterly published journal it

describes the important subjects of that season. Although it talks a lot about social problems it is
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still under criminal justice due to that it is social and legal problems based on laws which is what

Criminal Justice covers, law.

What doing this journal analysis show me was that in Criminal Justice there is a lot of

legal factors besides regular crimes. Criminal Justice involves from immigration to drugs, and

transgender cases. The biggest thing about this journal that stood out to me is that it is mostly

written by attorneys of law. Before I thought that Criminal Justice was only police work but now

I realize that is mostly laws which involve lawyers. What I do value about it is that Criminal

Justice is such a serious career that it takes upper educated people to even write these kind of

education. Getting to know more about the rules I live under, the law sense of Criminal Justice

makes me want to be sure about my career preference.

Works Cited
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Reinhart, Bruce E. "Dazed and Confused -- Legal and Ethical Pitfalls in Marijuana Law."

Criminal Justice. Jan. 2017: 5-9. Print.

Buckthal, Emma, and Sophie Feal. "Finding Protection under US Immigration Law:." Criminal

Justice. Mar. 2016: 5-14. Print

Bunin, Alexander. "The Constitutional Right to Counsel at Bail Hearings." Criminal Justice.

Mar. 2016: 23-47. Print.

Vasquez, Alicia, and Todd Bussert. "How Federal Prisoners Are Placed." Criminal Justice.

Mar. 2016: 19-22. Print.