Informal Practice In Criminal Justice
@When it comes picturing the criminal justice and its various administrations most people tend to believe that for the most part it is quite rigid and regulated as every procedure has to be followed down to the letter, but they would be surprised to find out how often formal structures, policies, and preferred practices are undermined by informal rules and group processes. The practice of informal rules and group processes allows criminal justice personnel to exercise more discretion when doing their jobs as some scenarios like minor offenses are not indicative for the need to arrest people and prosecute them. To analyze this in regards to the criminal justice system there are three key pointers that one should understand like why such informal practices exist, how they function in practice, and what variations exist in their application in police, courts, and corrections.
@Some people think that in the past informal practice was the consequences of immoral or apathetic officials who could not be bother to do their job but now with the wide spread use of technology and prominent …show more content…
However informal practices are considered to be one of the many methods that criminal justice officials use to resolve disputes and keep the peace, especially in this day and age where debates regarding unequal treatment by the system are abundant sometime overlooking some crimes can appease the wrathful masses on social media. However realize that informal practices aren’t just used by the rebellious individuals but rather the entire department may have a system in place like the one in McClearly’s book Dangerous Men the Sociology of Parole where the parole officers have a set of guidelines in regards to how tolerate one can be based on the severity of the client’s
@Some people think that in the past informal practice was the consequences of immoral or apathetic officials who could not be bother to do their job but now with the wide spread use of technology and prominent …show more content…
However informal practices are considered to be one of the many methods that criminal justice officials use to resolve disputes and keep the peace, especially in this day and age where debates regarding unequal treatment by the system are abundant sometime overlooking some crimes can appease the wrathful masses on social media. However realize that informal practices aren’t just used by the rebellious individuals but rather the entire department may have a system in place like the one in McClearly’s book Dangerous Men the Sociology of Parole where the parole officers have a set of guidelines in regards to how tolerate one can be based on the severity of the client’s