1.2- describe the organization of the cjs

Question 1

Overview of the CJS

Answer 1

Law creation and administration, law enforcement, the courts and punishment of convicted offenders.

Question 2

Main agencies

Answer 2

Law creation: Parliament, Judges and administration of the system. The police, the crown prosecution service, the courts HM courts and tribunal services and HM prison and probation service.

Question 3

Police relationships

Answer 3

With the courts by giving evidence, providing protection and holding defendants. With the CPS by providing evidence and charging offenders. With HM prison and probation services by arresting prisoners who have been recalled and because of Sarah’s Law they manage list of child sex offenders in the area. With voluntary organizations by referring victims and witnesses of crime to victim support.

Question 4

CPS relationships

Answer 4

With the police by advising on possible lines of enquiry and evidence collection to build a case, instructing on charging suspects. With the courts by preparing and presenting the prosecution case against offenders, preparing appeals against unduly lenient sentences/

Question 5

Government departments relationships

Answer 5

With the courts, prison service and probation service through HM courts and tribunals service and HM prison and probation service, the Ministry of Justice is the department responsible. With the police where the Home Office is the department responsible. Government departments provide funding.

Question 6

HM courts and tribunals service relationships

Answer 6

With the courts and judges by supervising the efficient running of the courts system, funding the individual courts. With HM prison service by holding prisoners attending court, pending their transfer/return to prison, arranging video recordings and live links for prisoners giving evidence from prison.

Question 7

National probation service relationships

Answer 7

With HM prison service and parole board by supervising prisoners who are released on license. With the courts by preparing pre-sentencing reports of offenders, supervising offenders who have been given a community sentence by the court and supervising drug testing under the courts orders.

Question 8

HM prison service relationships

Answer 8

With the courts by carrying out the custodial sentences that the court has imposed on offenders, supervising defendants who have been remanded into custody (refused bail) by the court, facilitating visits from defense lawyers to their clients in prison. With the police by facilitating interviews in ongoing police investigations. With the national probation service by liaising when a prisoner is to be released from prison on license.

Question 9

Voluntary organizations

Answer 9

Victim support is a charity that liaises with the police, courts and CPS to support victim throughout stages of an investigation and trial. (Others include Nacro, Women in prison and Women’s aid)

Question 10

Campaigns

Answer 10

To change the justice system, for example the Howard League for Penal Reform, the prison reform trust and INQUEST have relationships with the courts, prisons , police, the Ministry of Justice and the Home Office.