CJA/204 week 1

200 -300 words each

Q1

How does the United States government determine what acts are crimes?  How then is the public notified of that information?  What are some defenses to crimes?

 Q2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lydxtz5ntrQ

  

In Week 1 we cover the criminal justice system.  View the video link about misconceptions regarding the criminal justice system.  Provide some relevant information that relates to the video from your week one course materials and cite the source to include page number.  In the video, the requirement for each prison to have a law library is mentioned.  There is a cost-saving measure underway in some jurisdictions to offer access to law materials via the internet and eliminating the more costly traditional law library with hard-copy references.  What do you think about the idea?