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Essay on Discrimination and Criminal Justice System
The Criminal Justice System, a system the British government set up to deal with the treatment of law-breakers, has taken in consideration the three main objectives to bring social law and order in the society:
- Enforcing criminal law,
- Maintaining law and order in the society, and
- Helping victims.
As far as the Constitutions and law making is concern on books everything aspect seems clear, right and perfect but when it comes to being applied on the practical basis there are flaws seen in the criminal justice system and most major one is discrimination.Discrimination on the basis of class, gender, sexuality and ethnicity operates at the level of attitude, on the street, in the home, at the workplace or at social venues.
As Smith in 1997 said, the apparent fairness of the criminal justice system does not mean that the outcomes will necessarily be unbiased. Tonry in 1997 found that even though certain ethnic groups are far more often caught in the net of criminal justice than others, they are the also the ones that are the harm to the country. Now lets take the example of the Irish people in Britain. Irish people are the largest and probably longest established of ethnic minorities in Britain. Population estimates including those who are Irish born and those of Irish descent suggest a community in excess of two million. In July 1996 the Action Group for Irish Youth, The Bourne Trust, the Federation of Irish.
Societies, the Irish Commission for Prisoners Overseas and the National Association of Probation Officers began work to highlight what they believed was widespread discrimination against persons who define themselves as Irish in Britain within the criminal justice system.According to a study that the Irish people who face mental health problems in Britain are more likely to get in contact with the police and court and two-third of those on remand are thought to be mentally health......
