AC.3.1. Flashcards
What types of crime do the cps deal with
- All serious offences
- Deals with the majority of offences and offendors
What is their local and national reach- cps
- A national body throughout the country
- 14 regional teams
- each have their own chief prosecutor
- Work with other local police forces and criminal justice partners
What are the cps aims and objectives
- Set up in 1986
- Took the prosecuting role over the police due to bias
- Advises police how to build a case
- Independently monitors evidence from police
- Decides whether to prosecute
- Informs and supports victims and witnesses
What is the philosphy of the cps
- Honesty
- Independence
- equality
- professional
What is the funding of the cps
- Most of the income is from the government
- budget around half a billion a year
-in 2018 recieved 25% budget cuts
Aims and objectives of the police
- Protect life and property
- Bring offenders to justice
- the police achieve legal powers via PACE
- Can do their duty that involves a crime
What are the police- philosophy
- Robert Peel set up the MET in 1829
- Basic mission is to prevent crime and disorder
- Duties depends on public cooperation and approval
- Physical force is the last resort
- The police are public and public are the police
What is the funding of the police
- 12.3 bill in 18/19.
-2/3rds from the central government
rest comes from council tax - funding has fallen off
-there is a fall in police numbers
What is the national/local reach of the police
- 39 regional police forces
- many types of police
What are the two working pratices of the police
- Police will deal with all types of offences
- Specialist law enforcement on certain types of crime
Types of specialist policing
- Air support
- River police
- Dog handler
- Covert operations
- Drug squad
What are the aims and objectives of- judiciary
Judge has to:
-Ensure a fair trial to all parties
- Explain the legal issue to the jury
- sum up evidence
- Pass sentence if the defendant is guilty
- Can pass court appeals
What is the judiciary philsophy
- Independent from government therefore law is upheld
- No bias
- Ensure a fair treatment
-Have to swear oath
How are judicary funded
- The senior salaries review body inform pm how much they should make
Aims and objectives of the police
- protect from public harm \
- to help people that convicted help contribute better to society
Philsophy of the prisom
- ‘preventing victims by changing the lives of the offender
Prison - Funding
- 2018 the total budget was 3bill
- ## Resulted in staff cuts
Prison pratices
- Category prisons
Aims and objectives of the probation services
- NPS
- Partnerships are built with courts police and private secotrs
- 2 types of client ones in community service and ones released half way through their setence
Philsophy- Probation service
- Belief that offenders can change for the better
- believe in worth and dignity of an indivisual
- comminiment to social justice
Funding of the probation service
- in 2018 was 4.6 bil
Aims and objectives of the charity
-npo
- independent
- set up for those in need
examples of one - NACRO
- both charity and pressure group
- founded in 1966
- a social justice charity
- seeks to change lives
- overcome the stereotypical view of an ex-prisoner.
offers services such as:
housing
education
resettlement advice
outreach projects
How does it act a pressure group:
Campaigns to chance laws affecting ex offenders
wants to ban the box on job applicatioj
How is Nacro funded
Income of 50mil a year through donation and contracts and grants
What is narco reach
- A national organisation with around 50 different parts of England
- Has a large member of full time staff and many unpaid workers
working pratices: Types of criminality and offender
- Works with young people at risk of offending
- Concerned for the needs of disadvantaged people
