Analysis of the UK Criminal Justice System: Roles, Data, and Agencies

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the UK criminal justice system, encompassing key components like law enforcement, adjudication, and correction. It details the roles and responsibilities of various public services, including prisons, probation services, youth offending teams, and courts, within the system. The report further explains the combined efforts of different agencies in establishing a fairer justice system. It analyzes the application of crime data and statistics, examining trends and figures from 2018 and 2019, such as increases in knife crime and violence. Moreover, the report evaluates the effectiveness of data and information in crime prevention and criminal justice, emphasizing the significance of data in identifying crime patterns, setting priorities, and assessing the success or failure of crime reduction initiatives. The report concludes by summarizing the vital roles played by the police, public services, and data analysis in improving the justice system and mitigating crime.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
P5 Role and responsibility of a range of public services.............................................................3
M3 Explaining the role of agencies engaged in a combined process to enable a fairer justice
system..........................................................................................................................................4
P7 AND M4 Use of Crime data, and figures in measurement of crime.....................................5
D2 Evaluation and effectiveness application of data and information in real work for crime
prevention and criminal justice....................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
The criminal justice system consists of three broad elements which are law enforcement,
an adjudication and correction. This system is responsible for identification of the crime through
public services then justifies them and gives punishment thorough the court justice and finally
sending to correction homes to make a person better. In the present report detailed discussion
related with the role and responsibility of public service under criminal justice is done. Along
with this the role agencies play in establishment of fairer justice system is presented. Moreover,
use of crime data and figures is defined in proving or disapproving a crime. The evaluation of
this is also done to define the effectiveness of data and figures.
P5 Role and responsibility of a range of public services
The Criminal justice system of the UK gives justice to those who have committed crime.
The justice system is a series of government agencies and institutions which have a single goal of
identifying and catch the unlawful individuals to inflict punishment on them.
Prison: is an integral part of the criminal justice system with having its own necessity
and essentiality. The prison services plays a vital role in upholding the rules of the law by
providing assistance in ensuring that the alleged offenders are brought to justice by giving them
sanction for the breach of law and committing serious offences (Fox, Bannister and Miszczak,
2016). The responsibility of the prison is to make sure that the offender remain captive in the
custody and cannot leave the prison until a valid order is given to release such offender.
Probation services: is a national service which is significantly responsible for supervision
of the offender in the community and provision of reporting to the criminal courts to provide the
assistance in the sentencing duty for the offender. This service is related with supervising the
offender which is an order given by the court than serving a time in prison. In certain condition
probation means to send an offender under community services.
Youth offending team (YOT): is multi agency team which is coordinated with the local
authorities and oversees the youth justice board (Youdell and McGimpsey, 2015). The YOT
deals with the young offenders, set community services and reparation plans from them. The
responsibility of this team is prevention of the youth reoffending and imprisonment. The Youth
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justice officer supervise the young offenders in the community who are involved in the justice
system.
Courts: are main element of the criminal justice system of the nation and these are
responsible for interpretation and application of the law. For the criminal justice the court hears
out the trials and decide upon the sentence of the offender. The role played by court is vital that
this is where an offender ts sent to jail or prosecuted or imprisoned for life time.
M3 Explaining the role of agencies engaged in a combined process to enable a fairer justice
system
The agencies under the criminal justice system are the set of agencies and processes. This
establishes government control over the crime and imposition of penalties on those who are
under the violation of the laws.
The law enforcement agency: this includes the police who at the initial stage identify and
catch the offender who have committed a crime (Fox and Grimm, 2015). This can be further
divided into three sections which are police of UK, the national police bodies and specialist
agency watchdogs. All of these deal in identification of different types of crimes and to catch
offender to present them in court in order to give the offender a sentence.
The adjudication agency: this agency includes the CPS and courts. The CPS (Crown
prosecution service) is responsible for deciding that the case prepared by the police weather be
proceeded with, for giving prosecution.
The court system can also be further divided into lower and higher courts. The lowers
ones consist of magistrate courts where the initial proceeding related to criminal offences gets
started. The higher ones comprise crown courts which deals with criminal offences of more
serious nature rather in the magistrate courts summery offences are heard and prosecution are
pronounced.
The correction agencies: consist of prison, probation, supervision services. The prison
services have responsibility for dealing with offender’s convictions and sending them to
custodial sentence (Bosworth, Parmar and Vázquez, 2018). The police serve dual role as
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depriving dangerous offender of their liberty acting as deterrent to offender and secondly to
rehabilitate offenders back to society.
The probation services have a responsibility of dealing with offender who are coming out
of prison and their aftercare with integration into society. They have role in the offender life as
they remain present at the time of sentencing of the offenders and also after the release to
rehabilitee them in the community as a normal person.
P7 AND M4 Use of Crime data, and figures in measurement of crime
The data on the crimes includes the crimes against households, adults and it also includes
data related with crimes that are experienced by children, business and society. For the year
ended September 2018 there is an increase of 8% in the number of police records related with
offences done by knives and sharp instruments (Crime in England and Wales Statistical bulletin,
2018). There is increment by 15% in the number of people admitted to hospital for assault with
sharp instrument. The percentage rise in the number homicides is 14%. There is 4% decrease in
the number of police records in the offences having involvement of firearms. For the years ended
30 September 2019 the number of robbery crime was 300. The cases of public order offences
were high to 2636, the number of cases for sexual offenses were 1660, rather the cases of
stalking and harassment were 2182. The case of violence with and without injury were
numbered to 5613 and 5744 respectively.
All there above data and percentage increase shows that there is a vast increases in the
offence where offender use knives and sharps object to hurt the other and they suffer major
injuries as there is increases in the number of those who were hospitalized. It can also be seen
that the cases of violence have also increase in 2018 where there is not much difference in the
case involving injury or not.
There are many crime initiatives taken by all the agencies of the crime justice system and
they launce program to reduce the crime of particular nature in the society to reduce the harm
and decrease criminal offences in the community (Kirkwood and McNeill, 2015). The success of
a program initiative can be measures after to specific time form the launce of programs as the
reduction and control in the crime. If data and figures reveals such fact that the is proves that the
criminal initiative was effective and if not it shows ineffectiveness of the initiative.
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D2 Evaluation and effectiveness application of data and information in real work for crime
prevention and criminal justice
The Data and figures of the crime which is published by the sites of government
authorities clearly states the current position of the crime for a given period or year. Every year
data is publishes and with carrying out an comparison the criminal justice agencies can clearly
identify the increase and decrease in particulars type of offence. For example an increase in the
use of knives and sharp instrument have been seen in the year 2018 this gives the agencies that
is police, probation and supervision services a responsibility to see into it and start such initiation
that can stop the crimes of this nature (Robinson, Burke and Millings, 2015). Moreover, this
allows the agencies to set the priorities on certain crimes to detriment the justice and fair
treatment. This data and figures also defines the government agencies that they did not addressed
the reoffending nature of an offender effectively which can be seen by the rise in the volume of a
crime. The effectiveness of the data and figures as record of the crime can be set out as this
clearly states the volume of the crime occurred and directly asset the criminal justice agencies in
determined the fact of their success and failures in serving the justice system and doing a fair
treatment to the law and legislation by controlling or non controlling of the crime volume and
reoffending.CONCLUSION
Form the above report it can be stated the police plays a vital role in identification of the
crime and the public series in criminal justice system includes the prison, youth offending,
courts and probation services. IT has been articulated that the agencies of criminal justices are
law enforcement the police, courts and the agencies for detaining and supervising the offenders.
Furthermore, it can be interpreted that with the use of data and figures the rate of crime
commission can be identifies and effective measures can be taken by the justice agencies is to
mitigate the crime and to sending the offenders to correction home to live a better life ahead.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Bosworth, M., Parmar, A. and Vázquez, Y. eds., 2018. Race, criminal justice, and migration
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Fox, C. and Grimm, R., 2015. The role of social innovation in criminal justice reform and the
risk posed by proposed reforms in England and Wales. Criminology & Criminal
Justice. 15(1). pp.63-82.
Fox, C., Bannister, J. and Miszczak, P., 2016. The 2010-2015 coalition and criminal justice:
continuities and contradictions. Safer Communities. 15(2). pp.110-120.
Kirkwood, S. and McNeill, F., 2015. Integration and reintegration: Comparing pathways to
citizenship through asylum and criminal justice. Criminology & Criminal Justice. 15(5).
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Robinson, G., Burke, L. and Millings, M., 2015. Criminal justice identities in transition: The
case of devolved probation services in England and Wales. British Journal of
Criminology. 56(1). pp.161-178.
Youdell, D. and McGimpsey, I., 2015. Assembling, disassembling and reassembling ‘youth
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Online
Crime in England and Wales Statistical bulletins. 2018. [Online]. Available through :<
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/
crimeinenglandandwales/previousReleases>.
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