Crime Prevention In Criminal Justice

As a journalist for Dallas Morning News, I feel the need to address the few areas in criminal justice policy where our citizens may be under educated. Crime prevention and crime reduction policies are of particular interest to me. There are various different methodologies and strategies for crime prevention available in the courts, in corrections, and in law enforcement. These different facets of Criminal Justice profession have greatly been effected by policy over the past fifty years. The objectives that I present below are an attempt to capture the core of criminal justice crime reduction and prevention policies. Criminal justice policies have a lifecycle as if it is something organic. It is brought into existence by government after a need for the policy is determined. There are several people involved in the process; and this process varies from state to state, and from government entity to government entity. When the policy is active, and the legislative arm of the government

However, it will also help offenders deal with the majority of the root causes for the antisocial, failure to conform, and criminal tendencies. It efforts are to change the offender, and by changing the offender it thereby attempts to prevent future criminal behaviors. There are various types of programs that can be used to treat offenders. Some of these programs are physically and/or mentally challenging in effort to illicit a positive change, and thereby again deterring the offender from future crimes. This type of intervention is both proactive and reactive. Reactive because that would mean the offender comes to treatment after the crime has been committed. Proactive in one of two ways; either preventing future crimes from the convicted offender or by a person seeking out rehabilitation on their own prior to being caught, or committing a