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Key terms that best describe goals of criminal justice system:

Prevention

Justice

Safety

Fair

Accurate

Punishing

Rehabilitation

Protecting

Criminal justice system:

The purpose of the CJS is to deliver justice for all, by convicting and punishing the guilt and helping them to stop offending while protecting the innocent.

Delivering justice for all:

Equity not equality

Jury being impartial

Convicting and punishing the guilty

imprisonment

Rehabilitation

Fines

Community services

Electronic punishments (ankle bracelet)

Helping them to stop offending

Rehabilitation (drug & alcohol, employment skills training)

Lifeimprisonment

Deterrence stops repeat offending and first offenders

Protecting the innocent

Community members becoming victims

Victims

Falsely accused

Key criticisms of the CJS

Costs involved in the CJS

Complex and timely

‘The revolving door’

Rehabilitation

Repeat offenders

Could be due to cultural differences that are not being adequately addressed with court processes, rehabilitation being ineffective for different cultural groups and police

Ways to reduce imprisonment rates:

Job opportunities (provides money reduces rate of crime for things like fraud, distracts them and keeps them busy)

Location of housing (stereotypes of halfway houses)

Increasing scope of who is eligible to participate

Who is Sir Robert Peel and how have the ‘Peelian principles’ shaped our view of modern policing?

Sir Robert Peel was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice and twice home secretary in 1829. He is known as the father of modern British policing after he founded the Metropolitan Police Services. ‘London Bobby’

PRINCIPLE 1 “The basic mission for which the police exist is to prevent crime and disorder.”

PRINCIPLE 2 “The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent upon public approval of police actions.”

PRINCIPLE 3 “Police must secure the willing cooperation of the public in voluntary observance of the law to be able to secure and maintain the respect of the public.”

PRINCIPLE 4 “The degree of cooperation of the public that can be secured diminishes proportionately to the necessity of the use of physical force.”

PRINCIPLE 5 “Police seek and preserve public favor not by catering to the public opinion but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to the law.”

PRINCIPLE 6 “Police use physical force to the extent necessary to secure observance of the law or to restore order only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient.”

PRINCIPLE 7 “Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.”

PRINCIPLE 8 “Police should always direct their action strictly towards their functions and never appear to usurp the powers of the judiciary.”

PRINCIPLE 9 “The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it.”

Policing by consent

Ensuring minimal abuse of power

What are some functions of the police?

Using the progressive democratic model

Maintaining public order and safety

Enforcing the law

Preventing

Detecting

Investigating criminal activities

What are some of the main limitations and challenges facing contemporary police?

Technology (people filming police conduct could be positive and negative. Can be misleading or holding people accountable)

Police misconduct

Gender recruitment quota