A Comprehensive Analysis of Alternative Criminal Justice Policies

This report provides an in-depth analysis of alternative solutions to the criminal justice policy in the United States. It begins by highlighting the issues of high incarceration rates, overcrowded prisons, and the impact of current policies on offenders and communities. The report then outlines seven key policy areas for reform, including maintaining a focus on juvenile and criminal justice structures, coordinating effective criminal justice, addressing drug abuse, implementing evidence-based practices, addressing violence, utilizing federal funding strategies, and improving public safety while guaranteeing justice. The analysis delves into factors contributing to policy development, such as the cycle of drug use and criminal activity, increasing rates of juveniles in the system, and the high rate of incarceration. It emphasizes the importance of community-focused law enforcement, racial justice, and the establishment of restorative justice. The report concludes by advocating for reforms that prioritize community investment over incarceration, address racial disparities, and ensure human rights within the criminal justice system, offering a comprehensive overview of the challenges and potential solutions within the American criminal justice system.

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ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION TO THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY
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The high degree of incarceration in the country of United States and overcrowded prisons
resulting from judgment of policy makers enhance the application of prison sentencing. The
decision taken by the police officials to stress on street level detention of dealers of drug and
development in the existing attitudes headed for criminals and crime that lead to judges,
prosecutors and parole to deal with more harshly manner with the offenders (Clear & Frost,
2015). The raise of incarceration rates in United States over early 40 years resulting in increase
of both probability of imprisonment and spans of prisoning sentence. The policy involves in
reforming the contemporary justice structure and resolving the existing issues includes the
following :
1. Maintaining the focus of the tribal, state and federal administration in the want of
juvenile and criminal justice structure
2. Representing the tribal, state, juvenile and local criminal justice structure concerning to
state government
3. Contributing support for the progress of the criminal justice structure for tribal leaders
and Nation’s governors.
4. Support both public and government at all level in achieving safety to the public by
effective coordination to social, community, education system and also to the law
execution and measures to the criminal justice.
5. Promoting efficient criminal and juvenile practices and policies.
6. Propagates for committing sufficient resources to maintain all aspect of criminal justice
system

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7. Proper co ordination between different levels of government and promoting broad
philosophical arrangement .
The National Criminal Justice Association establish to upgrade the progress of criminal
justice system in tribal nations, states and bodies of local government that improve the safety to
public and also helps in the prevention of adverse effects of criminal conduct on individuals ,
victims and communities. It also focuses on adjudicating sanction offenders and defendants in
fair and just manner. The healthy relationship between the inhabitants of communities and
police agencies are vital for efficient safety of the public (Freudenberg & Heller, 2016). The
mutual respect and trust favors the confidence of the public in fair execution of laws and also
facilitates in the improvement of public safety. The second policy is coordinating effective
criminal justice. The criminal justice structure is the codependent system with the critical
functioning of public agencies at all margins of private entities and government. The efficient
criminal justice structure is improved significantly by proper analysis, planning and coordinating
amongst various sectors at state and regional levels. Both the government and non governmental
participants of justice system should upkeep in these effective strategy. The third policy is public
safety on illicit drugs. The drug abuse elevate the risk determinants of criminal and anti social
behavior. The controlling of criminal act and application of criminal justice structure for
addressing the issue of drug abuse should be adopted as last resort in response to societal issues.
The health care system at private and public level should be sufficiently funded in order to evade
uncertain criminal justice structure responses. The offenders who are victimized of drug
disorders, the justice system must resolve the high criminogenic risk of the offenders in
combinations with treatment and criminal sanctions. The fourth policy is programing based on
evidences and practices which implies that safety to the public in the criminal justice structure

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can be enriched if the policy funding, planning and implementation are regulated by empirical
information regarding the key factors of practices that are regarded as positive consequence
when executed with reliability for appropriate issues. The policy makers of the criminal justice
structure when feasible should obtain the practices which is based on evidence for the purpose of
continuing flexibility in respect of innovative practices having a sound base in its empirical
research. The fifth policy is terror of violence which have negative impact on excellence of life
on community.it is necessary for media to recognize the relations between the replies to
treatment and violence and also for eradication of future probable violence. The media,
practitioners of criminal justice and service providers who are based on community should
involve the communities on the best way to eradicate violence and also motivate both private and
public collaborations in every margins. The analysis of definite crime trends and accurate crime
reporting is critical factor is enabling the appropriate usage as strategies for crime reduction. The
sixth policy is strategies of federal funding The best skilful formula of federal funding which is
administered by planning agency of criminal justice structure at statewide helps in ensuring
transparency, coordination and answerability in the application of federal funding and funds
should not be used as punishment for non obedience with the unrelated mandates at federal level.
The seventh policy is improving safety to the public and guaranteeing justice. The subsisting
issues in the criminal justice structure is to contribute safety both to the public and justice. This is
one of the foremost guidelines to provide safety to the public, policy makers of justice system at
all margins and governments must collaborate constantly with one another along with the private
communities ensuring that public safety provide accommodations to the constitutional
restrictions.

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The factors that contribute towards policy development involves firstly vicious cycle of
drug use and criminal activity. It is evident that test on 80 percent of men detected with positive
drug when they are detained. Secondly the increasing rates of juveniles in the criminal justice
structure. The third issues is high rate of incarceration for crimes committed in United States and
about 7 millions of individual were kept under supervision (Neubauer & Fradella, 2018). This is
the alarming issue that pose negative impacts on the community where there is commission of
crimes. The fourth issue is act of corruption against women. According to the report of the
National Institute of Justice almost 1.3 million of women are victims of physical assault every
year by their intimate partner. The fifth issue is three strikes legislatures which implies that if the
individuals is detained and convicted about three times they are released.
Our criminal justice structure should be safe which treats individuals fairly and
impartially it should be flexible which change with the passage of time. Nevertheless, the
individuals are the victims of unfair criminal structure that leads to the disruption to the
communities ( Rothman, 2017).The policy establish inefficient, racial disparity and increase
level of imprisonment. In order to advance rational law enforcement in support of the community
the administration should emphasize on communities rather than incarceration. The reformation
in the criminal justice system is important on following grounds. Firstly the law enforcement at
federal level should focuses on practices and policies that helps in reduction of rate of
incarceration and put emphasize on investment by community over incarceration as a strategic
measure for guaranteeing safety to the public. Secondly, funding of law enforcement body by the
Department of Justice and action for resolving unjustified racial discrimination which helps in
ensuring obedience with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, 1964. Thirdly, the importance of policy
in reforming the criminal justice structure lies in that it forbid the performance that reward agents

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of criminal justice for enhancing the quantum of tickets, arrest, summonses, prosecutions and
also facilitate safeguards to the whistle blowers who report volume based unofficial performance
metrics and also to establish strict penal measures for agents of law enforcement with unofficial
policies. The fourth importance is establishment of restorative justice in the structure of criminal
justice. Fifthly it helps in ensuring human rights by complying with the standards of human
rights for racial equality and also permit the members of the United Nation to have unrestricted
access to the prisons in the United States for inspection. Sixthly the reformation in judicial
structure helps in the establishment of reconciliation and truth commission and also to advance
international approaches.

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