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Criminal Justice refers to the system used by government or the state to maintain social control, deter and prevent crime, enforce laws, and administer justice. The primary agencies charged with these responsibilities are law enforcement (police), courts, and corrections. When processing the accused through the criminal justice system, government must keep within the framework of laws that protect individual rights. The pursuit of criminal justice is, like all forms of "justice", "fairness" or "process", essentially the pursuit of an ideal.