Correction Practices in Criminal Law

CRIMINAL LAW
CORRECTIONS

CORRECTION PRACTICES 1
A criminal justice system is comprised of different sentencing options so as to ensure
the implement the rule of law in the country and the facilitation of the criminal justice reform.
The following work is aimed at highlighting the range of measures and interventions on the
lines of the restorative justice practices, crime prevention, and corrections to enhance the
criminal justice system. These practices are established on the lines of varying legal, social
and cultural circumstances and to enhance the efficiency of the responses towards the crime.
There have been enacted a number of international agreements on the best practices
principles and nations can borrow the practices from one another. The basic belief behind the
restorative justice program is that the involvement of the parties associated with the case is
essential for the resolution of the conflicts and the mitigation of the consequences (Johnstone,
2013). Some of the best theoretical practices of the restorative justice programs, crime
prevention and corrections are the Victim Offender Mediation, Family or Community Group
Conferencing, and the Peace making or Sentencing Circles (Zehr, 2015). While the victim
offender mediation calls for the meeting between victim and the offender under the assistance
of a trained mediator, the group conferencing involves the opportunity for the offender,
victims, and respective family members to connect with the community support to address
the consequences of the crime (UNODC, 2019). The peace making or the sentencing circles
involves the structuring of the sentencing plans that is aimed at addressing the concerns and
the interests of the various stakeholders such as victims, offenders, supporters of the victims,
offender supporters, defense counsel, judges, prosecutors and others.
In terms of the current correctional settings, the practices utilized in the real settings
are elaborated as follows. It is significant to note that the State and Local Authorities use the
COMPAS software to assess the areas of the risk to build the base for the correction program
(Northpointeinc, 2012). One of the causes of concern in the said risk assessment practice is
that the staff is often states to be having inadequate training. The result thus obtained from
the risk assessment software are incorrect because of the poor implementation. In addition
there are chances that staff indulges into overriding of the assessment procedure where the
case involves a certain category of special population and thus leading to the biasness in the
procedure. The second practice that is widely used is the motivational interviewing. The
practice begins with setting a goal for the offender and working towards the same under a
trained practitioner (Miller & Rollnick, 2012). The area of concern because of which the
intervention is not implemented successfully is the high number of cases. The high load of
the cases leads to the limited interactions with offenders and the meaningful outcomes are not