This section of articles on how the criminal justice system works and the flowchart below depicts the most common sequence of events in the criminal and juvenile justice system from the time a crime is committed, reported, investigated, an arrest is made and a criminal defendant proceeds through prosecution, pretrial services, adjudication, sentencing, punishment and corrections. Information about these events in the criminal justice system can be found in the table of contents below the chart.
Flowchart of events as they occur in the criminal justice system
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the Criminal Justice System Works
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Recidivism
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