Week 11 Discussion 2-Stephen Paye

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Propose an alternative policy suggestion for one of the criminal justice policy development agencies. Please reply to Stephen as if you are having a conversatin with him

" The United States Criminal Justice Policy".

The United States Criminal Justice system is composed of three elements: federal and state-level law-enforcement agencies; the judiciary; and the corrective facilities. The decision-making in and towards this system is heavily influenced by civilian and budgetary consideration as serving the American populace in the interest of justice with the limited resources the system has, is a top priority. Due to limited funds and manpower, an elaborate system of parole and financial penalties compliment actual prison terms.

Through a quick web-search most criminal justice system development agency seem to be disseminating their information to the visitor by prominently highlighting in their websites the important role they play in creating a fair, just and efficient justice system by positively influencing decision-making. The benefit to the system is that they stress so much on a people-oriented approach. However, there is an overemphasis on law enforcement aspect of the justice system with little reserved for the courts and correctional service.

For purposes of this discussion, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and the Criminal Justice Foundation (CJF) were selected. NIJ is an agency of DOJ responsible of championing criminology discourse. It studies and reports to DOJ about criminal behavior and police response, juvenile delinquency, domestic assaults, prosecutor/s misconduct, drug violence and unfair sentencing with the intention of crafting policy innovations and improvements which it then recommends to DOJ (Neubauer & Fradella, 2018).

The CJF, on the other hand, is dedicated to recommending better ways to handle the drug problem especially to DEA (Cole, Smith &DeJong, 2018). It goes a step further by encouraging addict rehabilitation and not just prosecution. It criticizes the current system as flawed. NIJ faces the twin problems of limited resources allocated by Congress especially in the area of criminal research (Pound, 2018). Some of its recommendations have not been fully implemented. CJF, on the other hand, is a lobby group that has had not much of an impact as the outfit would desire to have.

In a nutshell, the tax-payer has not yet gotten his/her value for money through NIJ research. Criminal research has not rolled back the drug problem, police brutality and gun violence in America. Their approach has therefore not borne much fruit. The underlying societal problems need a new approach. They require tighter border controls, enhanced race relations and tighter control of firearms without necessary infringing on the Second Amendment.

References.

Cole, G. F., Smith, C. E., &DeJong, C. (2018). The American system of criminal justice. Cengage Learning.

Neubauer, D. W., &Fradella, H. F. (2018). America’s courts and the criminal justice system. Cengage Learning.

Pound, R. (2018). Criminal justice in America. Routledge.

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