Impact of Social Security on the Criminal Justice System Social Security is a system of providing insurance and safety towards various societal issues like old age, unemployment, disability, corruption, poverty, etc. Criminal justice system, on the other hand, aims at control or reduction in the rate of crime occurring in society through a system of practices and institutions of the government. Social security has a lot to do in influencing or impacting the criminal justice system. The system of Social security is about determining what a society offers to its members as part of its security programme. Criminal justice is about applying these social ideals to criminal activity as a society defines it in the criminal law. Thus, we can say that criminal justice is actually a part of the social security system it encompasses itself within the periphery of the social system. The socialization of people determines and affects behavior of the people in the society and criminal behavior can be the result out of it. So, therefore, it is a study in social behavior and attitudes concerning crime in society. A just and fair social security system endowing lot of benefits to people will have a positive impact