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This 24 page paper considers the position of a freelance worker who will be working with offenders and victims in the UK criminal justice system. The paper takes a theoretical approach looking at the theories and issues they may have to balance including why offenders commit crimes, the impact on the victims and the study of victimology and the role of restorative justice. The bibliography cites 24 sources.
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opinions that are held about the criminal justices system, with arguments that the law is too weak on criminals, ignores victims and does not have uniformity. These are issues which
cannot be changed by a worker with the system. To work as a freelancer within the UK criminal justices system, with either criminals and/or victims the worker will need to
understand not only the system, but also the way in which they need to balance competing needs. Influences that many be seen within the system directly or indirectly on the
way they treat those within the system. There also needs to be consideration of the political and the ethical concerns. The system is one that is more focused on
those committing crimes. Issues such as looking for underlining causes such as mental health issues before a case goes to court have gained a great deal of attention (Winchester, 2002).
This is also especially true of young offenders (Winchester, 2002). However, more attention is being paid with concepts and practice such as restorative justice, as seen with the document "
Restorative justice: Helping to meet local needs" published in March 2005 (CJS, 2005). To consider this we need to look at the elements that concern those who work with
the output of the criminal justice system. The inconsistencies of the judiciary and the difficulties the criminal justice system, such as the way the offenders are released only to re-offend,
as highlighted by Metropolitan Police, Sir John Stevens (Ford, 2002). For the worker working with the criminals and the victims the process has already taken place, it is this situation
where they will get involved. To examine this we will assume that the role of the worker is to support and help offenders ensure they do not re-offend and to
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