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Criminal Justice Policies challenging the New York City
Criminal Justice Policies challenging the New York City
Criminal Justice Policies
Criminal Justice Policies are those set of policies framed by the statutory and regulatory bodies of a country that cater to look after the criminal issues and punish the guilty by providing justice to the innocents and make world a better place to live! Its objective is to reduce the crime rate in the country, make that country a suitable and safe habitat for its people and to discourage unlawful acts and crimes committed by the convict.
Some of the most highlighted criminal justice issues in any country are- drug issues, involvement of juvenile and youth in the crime, violence against women, and many more to mention (“A More Just New York city”). The regulatory body has undertaken the approach of Criminal Justice Reform to deal with and discourage the criminal offenses and encourage safety of the citizens of New York by the means of (“Criminal Justice Reform”):
Bail Reform, wherein, the accused does not get pleaded from the suspected crime on the basis of cash bail and has to go for trails in the court. This has been done with the objective to make such criminals understand that they cannot be released merely through cash.
Discovery Reform, it is related to sharing all the evidences before the trail.
Speedy Trial Reform, makes the court trails easier to proceed without the concerned getting into the tedious process, with the motive of avoiding delays
Criminal Justice Policies challenging the New York City, US
Although, there are many issues relating to criminal justice that challenge the NYC. To name a few are jail population, homicides, shooting incidents, criminal summonses, stop and frisk incidents, property crime, etc.
Here, would be discussed two of them:
Drug Policy
Back then in 1973, a strict law under ‘The Rockefeller Drug Laws’ was enforced upon the citizens of NYC with reprimanding them through the way of imprisonment for indulging into the minor of issues such as low-level or first-time offenses. However, in 2009, Drug Policy Alliance such harsh laws were taken aback with the focus shifted to public health care from criminal justice. This step was taken with keeping in mind the effect of such reprimanding or negative reinforcement on the drug addicts who after being released from jail would indulge into much intense addiction, resulting in no drop in the rate of such offenses. It was noticed that the black Americans captured major share of being the drug addict victims in comparison to the white Americans. Few of the intervening...