Public Role & Function In Criminal Justice System

Public Role & Function In Criminal Justice System

Abstract

The overall aim of this thesis is to investigate people's attitudes and perceptions of crime and the criminal justice system, with a view to informing crime prevention initiatives. The study reviews the relevant and existing literature on people's attitudes and perceptions, and the extent to which they are included in crime surveys. The study also sets out to identify the role of community against crime and the extent to which the community can prevent crime, thus illustrating the importance of understanding these attitudes and perceptions for informing opportunities for crime prevention. It is a worthwhile task to research this specific area as much of the literature available purports to show people as the main perpetrators of crime, overshadowing the limited literature and research that exists on their attitudes and perceptions. This paper views the link between criminal justice system and public perception. This research contributes to the literature by broadening familiarity on the relationship between criminal justice system and public perception. This examine also contributes to limited research on the criminal justice system and public recognition views, where delivering a much-needed analysis of the relationship between media consumption and satisfaction with the police. However, again, bulk of the task in this paddock has been anxious more with the formation of opinions and views, i.e., with the appearances of the learning on social views, alternatively with the actual learning, or familiarity, itself.

Table of content

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION5

Overview5

Purpose of study6

Research Question7

Significance of study7

CHAPTER 2: LITREATURE REVIEW9

Introduction9

Criminal Justice System Definition11

Criminal justice system in England11

Criminal justice system in Greece14

Criminal Stereotype perception in England and Greece15

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY29

Introduction29

Methods used30

Sample Analysis33

Data Analysis35

Grounded Theory35

NVIVO USE37

NVivo link with Grounded Theory37

Difficulties Faced During Data Collection38

CHAPTER 4: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION40

Introduction40

People Perception about Criminal Stereotype40

Greece People Perception about Criminal Stereotype43

Public Role in the Criminal Justice System46

Public Role in the England Criminal Justice System47

Public Role in the Greece Criminal Justice System49

Respondents dealing with crime51

England respondents dealing with crime53

Greek respondents dealing with crime54

Police officer's opinion54

Summary55

CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION57

Future research59

REFERENCES60

BIBLIOGRAPHY68

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Overview

Public attitude on crime and criminal justice has undergone an important transformation over the past couple of years in the UK and Greece. Support for long jail judgments as the prime device in the battle against crime is waning, as most persons decline a solely punitive approach to criminal justice. Instead, the public now endorses a balanced, multifaceted answer that focuses on avoidance and rehabilitation in live presentation with other remedies (Bull 1982, pp 269-282). UK and Greece have seen a fundamental transformation in relatives between the public and the state with consider to criminal justice principle and practice. There has been an expanding acknowledgement and acknowledgement of the state's own limitations in its capability to assurance and sustain public order. In part, this arises from a sequence of latest crises in the apparatus of criminal justice established over the preceding 200 years or so (Bull 1982, pp 269-282), in which the function and engagement of the public have been ...