Explain how policy is made in criminal justice.

Explain how policy is made in criminal justice.

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Post Merge: 11 years ago

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The most complex and comprehensive approach to effecting planned change in criminal justice is to create a policy. Policies vary in the complexity of the rule or guidelines being implemented and the amount of discretion given to those who apply them.  For example, police officers are required to read Miranda warnings to suspects before they begin questioning them if the information might later be used in court against the defendant. This is an example where discretion is relatively constrained, although the Supreme Court has formulated specific exceptions to the rule. Sometimes policies are more complex, such as the “social” policy of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty in the 1960s. Organizations, too, create policies specifying how they are going to accomplish their mission, expend their resources, and so on.