NCJ Number
155125
Editor(s)
E Stockdale,
S Casale
Date Published
1992
Length
304 pages
Annotation
These 13 papers focus on major flaws in the United Kingdom's criminal justice system and the resulting lack of public confidence in it, with emphasis on the current lack of coordination of aims and incentives in the process of criminal justice and the need for clear, coherent, and consistently applied principles and standards.
Abstract
Noting cases of miscarriage of justice, the discussions focus on inadequacies in arrest procedures, bail decisions, prison conditions, staffing levels, and the speed of case processing. Individual chapters focus on problems on problems at each stage in the criminal justice process from stop and search through arrest, remand, trial, and sentence to the implementation of the sentence through imprisonment, parole, or a community- based sentence. The discussion focuses on the personnel of the government involved in delivery justice at each stage in the process. Additional chapters focus on different types of people who become involved in the criminal justice process, including youth, drug addicts, minorities, females, sex offenders and their victims, and mentally ill offenders. Chapter reference lists