Roughly $265 billion tax dollars are spent on the criminal justice system every year, and it employs more than 2.4 million people. Why does this significant cost justify studying the criminal justice system?
so we can understand how our tax dollars are spent on the criminal justice system
because we will be impacted by the crime during our lifetime
because the system is an important part of our democracy
so we can recognize when media portrayals of the justice system are misleading
