The Policy Making Process in the Criminal Justice System by Adrian Barton Nick Johns

Author:Adrian Barton, Nick Johns [Adrian Barton, Nick Johns]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Criminology
ISBN: 9780415670142
Google: FOafNwKqcCcC
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-15T04:10:22+00:00

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Once policy makers have both the authority to ensure that policy will be implemented in the required manner and the necessary expertise in place, they then need either an existing organisational framework within which to deliver policy or the ability to create/merge existing arrangements to create a new delivery framework. This could have been explored in the case of employment support for ex-offenders set out above, but the preference was to replace the old framework with something which made intuitive sense but which was arguably neither adequately planned and resourced nor well implemented. Equally, in terms of joint working (which we will look at in depth in another chapter), policy makers need to ensure that there is agreement and common ground across a host of areas. For example, in the case of child abuse, is there agreement about what constitutes abuse? Do the processes correspond across institutional boundaries? Are the IT systems compatible? Is there mutual respect between the police, the courts and social services? And so on. A failure to have this order in place runs the risk of undermining the policy during the implementation phase.

Hopefully, you will be able to see that these three factors act to both enhance and constrain the ability of policy makers to make and implement policy, at least in the short to medium term, and have a clear resonance with the previous two chapters in respect of what can and cannot be done in terms of formulating and implementing new policy. Having explored what is needed in order to begin to implement a policy, we now move on to pay more attention to the practicalities of making policy ‘work’.

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