Unit 12 P5 – identify the approaches used by public services to reduce crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour. M3: analyze how the strategies used by the local community public services, work to reduce crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour D2: Evaluate a local public service initiative designed to address crime and its impact on the community The purpose of my research is to provide an overview of existing knowledge about how public services and third sector organisations reduce crime and support witness, victims of crime. Once I’ve achieved the aim from above, then I will give indications of effectiveness. Firstly, I will recognize the methodologies used by public services to counter crime and disorder. Then, I will state how the public services and third sector organisation support the victims and witnesses.
Types of Restitution Restitution is the money that a judge orders an offender to pay to the victim. It is part of the offender’s sentence and is based on the victim’s expenses resulting from the crime and the offender’s ability to pay. The expenses might include medical/dental expenses, lost wages due to the crime or stolen or damaged property. However, court ordered restitution does not guarantee payment by the offender. There are four types of restitution monetary-victim restitution, monetary-community restitution, service-victim restitution and service-community restitution.
What is done is to “instill habits of work in people, help build their skills' then they will be rehabilitated. The third one, which believes that true rehabilitation takes place when such person is allowed back into the community and is a combination of both retributive and rehabilitative theories, seeks to: “1) deter future and past criminals from doing a crime because the threat of incarceration looms 2) incapacitate the offender to stop the individual from possibly endangering others 3) punish the criminal by serving time and living a restricted lifestyle and 4) rehabilitate them for release into society (Fuller , 125-27). By the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the probation success rate is 62%. Most probation programs are designed to (1) protect the community by assisting judges in sentencing and supervising offenders, (2) carry out sanctions imposed by the court, (3)
Victim Impact Statement The victim-impact statement will serve as a valuable tool in the sentence I deliver. I adamantly defend the victim’s right to make a victim-impact statement. The victim has every right to be heard. I also believe the statement should be in the defendant’s file, for review in the event of parole. “In a recent survey by the National Center for Victims of Crime, over 1300 victims were asked to rate the importance of various legal rights.
Rick Holland American Corrections Phase 4 IP Professor Dawn Howell 12/15/14 “Objective jail classification (OJC) is a process of assessing every jail inmate's custody and program needs and is considered one of the most important management tools available to jail administrators and criminal justice system planners. An effective system of inmate classification will reduce escapes and escape attempts, suicides and suicide attempts, and inmate assaults.” (NICIN, 2006) Upon being convicted of a crime worthy of a prison sentence the convicted criminal are referred to a reception area for classification. This classification determines what facility and what level of confinement he or she will receive. In the State of California,” upon arrival to a prison Reception Center, the inmate must go through the reception and classification process. This could take up to 120 days.
Smith (2006) defines victim compensation as a “form of income redistribution designed to redistribute wealth from offenders to victims of crime” (307). The key distinction in this form of victim compensation is that these individuals are being compensated for the impacts of criminal acts that were deliberately perpetrated against them by someone who was subsequently tried and convicted for those acts. Often there is a time window within which a victim is required to file for compensation (Siegel, 2005). Often, extensions can be granted if there are justifications for filing late. In
A criminal trial process usually starts after the individual has been arrested, or warrant charges have been filed between two to forty eight hours after arrest, the individual then has an informal arraignment. This is when the individual is made aware of his or her charges against them. Take into consideration if the individual has not been read their Miranda rights. At this stage the individual shall then be read those rights. Now if he or she has been mirandized they will again be made aware of their right to a lawyer.
Other objectives of rehabilitation include keeping control of the offenders life through supervision and treatment monitoring, improve treatment environment, provide social support and improve community involvement via employment support and community service (University of Phoenix, 2013). Parole is post-incarceration release; it is release from prison before the completion of the sentence imposed. Parole differs from mandatory release; mandatory release is when an inmate is released into society, only after the full completion of the sentence is served through incarceration. Paroled prisoners are released, under conditions, before the completion of their sentence is served. Violating the conditions of one’s parole can result in revocation of parole and return to prison to complete the remainder of the original sentence.
Community Policing. The broken windows theory emphasized the role of police in improving the capacity of communities. The policing efforts goal was to develop partnerships between police and residents in distressed neighborhoods in an effort to prevent crime and promote early detection of minor offenses. Neighborhoods became safer to prevent any other serious crimes from happening. Page 2 II – The Pros and Cons of the Broken Window Theory.
Affect on society Community corrections affect society because some people do not feel safe knowing that there is a criminal out and about with the freedom to do whatever, he or she pleases. A person, whom commits a crime while in the community, will return to jail to finish up his or her time that he or she was sentenced, depending on the new crime committed, whether it is the same crime or not, the offender can have time added to his or her present sentencing. Hypothesis and Effectiveness Community corrections are forms of discipline that works when it is directed toward the correct group of people. Every person deserves a second chance, unless you are a person whom thinks that killing a person, is a good way to solve