Criminal Justice System

Within every country there must be a system created to maintain as much peace as well as order within the country. This is done by laws and rules. There is the system called Criminal Justice Systems. Within this system it states: “a series of organizations involved in apprehending, prosecuting, defending, sentencing, and jailing those involved in crimes - including law enforcement, attorneys, judges, courts of law, prisons(Dictionary.com, 2014).” There are many levels that are brought to light in order for each country to create their Criminal Justice Legal System those suites their country. Some are based on traditions while others are created on history. Therefor with the understanding of what the Criminal Justice System is as well as what

basis the creation of a particular countries Criminal justice system then this information is used in co-ordinance of the comparison of two particular countries.
Take the two countries such as Japan and Greece. These are two completely different countries and yet they are somewhat similar. They both have their own way of creating laws and handling crimes as many countries do. Laws are based on historical events, laws and rules and updated to stay current with the changing of their societies, economy and culture changes.
Greece
When one might think of Greece they think of site seeing as well as the culture comes to mind.

The beauty of Greece is what people are going there to see. People do not think of the laws when they are traveling from country to country. However, Greece is much like any other country, they have rules and laws that are to be followed and those that do not abide by the laws will be punished. Greece uses the Civil Law Tradition for their court of law with the Procedural Process. The history of the law on Greece is prevalent in continental Europe; which has evolved from the Roman Law and Justinian’s Corpus Juris Civilis as well as codes such as the Napoleonic Code Civil of 1804 and the German civil code. German civil law is the one that has most affected countries that use the Greek legal system (Kelemenis & Company,

2012).

In 1968 the Code of Civil Procedure (CCP) also known as [Kodikas Politikis Dikonomias] was enacted to regulate the Civil Laws in Greece.

Since then CCP has undergone various revisions. CCP relies heavily on the principle of the parties’ initiative (i.e. courts do not exercise any case management of the kind known to common law jurisdictions and all procedural steps are to be taken, as a rule, by the parties rather than the court); and on the principle of concentration (i.e. there are no pre-trial proceedings and all allegations and evidence are first submitted at the trial stage) (Kelemenis & Company, 2012).

The (GCCP) also known as the Greek Code of Criminal Procedure; basic statute governing the procedure carried out before Criminal Courts. Numerous provisions of the Greek Constitution -which directly include applicable procedural law-as well as provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights and its Protocols and those of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights complement the GCCP provisions (Anagnostopoulos Criminal Law & Litigation, 2012).

With this section that was written by Walter A. Bordenn, MD in the article named “A history of justice: origins of law and psychiatry” it states

below:
“Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1881 in The Common Law 46 wrote: "It may be said, not only that the law does, but that it ought to, make the gratification of revenge an object. …The first requirement of a sound body of law is, is that it should correspond with the actual feelings and demands of the community, whether right or wrong. If people would gratify the passion of revenge outside of the law, if the law did not help them, the law has no choice but to satisfy the craving itself, and thus avoid the greater evil of private retribution." The circle completes, from Athens to Rome to London to Washington. But this leaves us approaching the year 2000, asome mere 5400 years from Johan Weyer, and 150 from Isaac Raystill, still emerging from the Dark Ages, technologically enlightened, but with justice just partially tamed (Bordenn, MD, 1999, p.12-14) .”

It would seem that with the changing of the world that cultural will play a part in the laws just as they had done in the Roman times. They used philosophy and economy to help create the laws.
Japan

Conclusion
Although Greece and Japan are different they seem to be somewhat on the same page. Both countries do believe in humanity, socialism, culture and international respect. Both countries culture is so different however they both try to do what is in the best interest of the country as well as the people. One would not think that since they do not have the same beliefs and culture is one is accustomed to. Both countries have long historical events that have occurred that has brought forth the laws that they have like any country updated to suite the current situation and culture. The world is changing and the countries try to keep up with the change so that when tourists came through the international laws and their own laws can somewhat coincide.