(bolaji) Essay Questions: 1.People from BAME (Black and Minority Ethnic) backgrounds continue to be disproportionately over-represented in the Criminal Justice System in the UK. Discuss 2.Critically...

THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
Table of Contents
Introduction    3
BAME (Black, Asian and Minority ethnic) individuals disproportionately overrepresented in the criminal justice system of the UK    3
Current issues within the parole    5
Support provided to the offenders upon their release and their effectiveness    6
Limitation of the criminal justice system in response to victims of serious crimes    7
Conclusion    9
References    10
Introduction
The primary motto and idea of any justice system relating to crime – “Justice is blind” signifies that legal systems are impartial. Nevertheless, for many people who belong to the minority community, justice for them is far from blind. The complex landscape of the criminal justice system is disproportionally distributed for the different ethnic races living within the country (BAME) as well as general population in the United Kingdom. There are several loopholes in the justice system that affects the victims as well. Any negative judiciary proceedings experienced by any human being seeking justice from a criminal justice mechanism often creates confusion and hopelessness affecting them, physically as well as can affect them mentally. Sometimes it takes years to resolve serious criminal cases and that causes serious destruction in the lives of the people associated with the case. It ruins their lives, relationships, career and leaves them in a state of despair. The justice system is considering the amendments slowly and we may now hope that it makes fair decisions for all.
BAME (Black, Asian and Minority ethnic) People disproportionately overrepresented in the criminal justice system of the UK
The current section is aimed at identifying core ideologies of United Kingdom’s criminal justice as well as the loopholes it has with the parole of its criminals.
Ministry of justice released some reports and bulletins that highlight decisions where the minority community was treated differently. It has been noted that the people from the minority sections of UK have received judiciary treatment that are not similar to those received by the general majority communities. The disproportionality in being prosecuted occurs early in the justice pipeline. It starts with a person being arrested for the charge and is continued throughout the process. The Crown Prosecution Service makes the charging decisions for the majority of the cases. The cases constitute the most serious offences. The CPS also makes the charging decision for domestic abuse and hate crime cases. The minority in UK, especially the black people cases are referred towards the Crown court or the magistrate’s court, significantly more than their white counterparts in the country. The cases including black and minority ethnic have a high chance of being proceeded at magistrates’ court. The Crown Court trials have more cases of BAME including both men and women than their white counterparts. Race highly affects the treatment people receive in the courtroom from the attorneys (Blake, 2018). In case of custodial sentences, the minorities are seen to face more punishment than their majority counterparts do.
The asset publishing service (2016), released a report that highlights the following statistical data where the disproportion in the United Kingdom criminal justice, is clearly stated.
African ethnic people are 4 times more susceptible to receive jail sentence than white people in Britain are. Black individuals hold merely 3% of the total population in the country although they are seen taking up almost about 9% of defendants prosecuted for offences that are indicative and needs proper evidence submission. The white male sin UK is considered 3 times less prone to being arrested by the police than black people from the minority community of the country. Mixed ethnic men account 2 times more prone to being prosecuted than that of white men in the United Kingdom. The ratio of Black and white young males is 3:2 in context of being summoned for trails in the Crown Court, in the United Kingdom. As for the Asians, the proportion if similar, accounting 2% more causes than the white majority in the country, leading to higher number of Asian people heading to Crown Court than white males. In case of women of the minority communities in UK, there is a similarity in the disproportional treatment meted by the Criminal justice system in the country.
The data showed that major disproportionately occurs at the point of arrest and it is reduced at the subsequent stages in the Criminal Justice System (Asset publishing service, 2016).The difference in proceedings displays a high level of injustice towards the minority community.
Labour Party’s MP David Lammyat, in his special report, pointed towards the judicial biases and proposed that UK prime minister has requested that some prosecutions meted towards the easily-targeted and minority-ethnic individuals must be released. It would help in tackling stern biases against them in the criminal justice system of England and Wales He highlighted that disproportionality has been overrepresented in the case of BAME community. He mentioned that the criminal justice systemapparently displayed racial prejudice, but it is surely declining. The covert or implicit bias emerged as a raging issue within the judiciary system in United Kingdom. Lammy gave this example to make his point clear- the word “gang” is now increasingly used rather than “group” when describing a particular group (Guardian, 2017).
Current issues within the parole
Ensuring human rights and...