CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

Criminal Justice System



Criminal Justice System

Introduction

In this paper, we will discuss the statement of Louise Cassey, who was appointed as the first commissioner for victims of crime in England and Wales in March 2010. She states that criminal justice system treats victims as a poor relation and an afterthought. Louise Casey's after the review of criminal justice policies billed new ways to tackle low-level crime and antisocial behaviour. She states that states and individual form contracts, which public takes, action against and policies should be changed in the way the criminal justice victims are treated. The CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) has taken steps to ensure the access the needs and problems of criminal justice victims. There is a need to review the policies in a proper way (Walker, 2011).

Reviewing the criminal justice policies

Various crime control policies that have fuelled the exponential growth in the incarceration rate - for example, Intensive Street level drug enforcement and crackdowns on "quality of life" or public order offenses- have disproportionately affected criminal justice system. Therefore, prevalence estimates that rely on studies from the 1980s or the early 1990s have little usefulness in the planning and delivery of mental health services to current jail detainees and prison inmates.

Criminal Justice System share many of the socioeconomic and other characteristics of criminally involved people (youth, unemployment, poverty, lack of education, substance use) and live in the same criminogenic neighbourhoods where the presence of police and the likelihood of arrest are high, presenting a comprehensive gateway for criminal justice system to enter the criminal justice system.

Various studies have measured the prevalence of mental illness in jails and prisons for more than three decades. Except for a handful of investigations (Ford, 2011), the prevalence of psychiatric disorders has been established using weak methodologies and epidemiological imprecision. Moreover, psychiatric prevalence rates in correctional institutions are difficult to capture because they fluctuate with changes in law enforcement and sentencing practices, rates of psychiatric morbidity in the community, and the structure and financing of the community mental health system.

Increase in criminal justice activities

The number of criminal activities continues to grow. The percentage of criminal justice system in correctional populations has probably grown and will continue to grow. Evidence suggests that rates of serious mental illness in the prison population rose substantially during the 1990s. For example, in a 2001 national survey, 25 of the 29 state prison systems with longitudinal healthcare data reported that the proportion of inmates with criminal justice system increased measurably between 1990 and 2000 (Walker, 2011). These estimates based on self-reported perceptions of growth and state the question of whether the actual rates of inmates have actually risen. If sensitivity to the problem among prison administrators has simply increased, and similarly (and more likely), whether more and better screening procedures were implemented in the 1990s. Thereby uncovering more cases of incarcerated criminal justice system than earlier.

Prevalence of criminal Activities

The calculation of comparable prevalence rates among different settings or studies has been hampered by variations in ...