Book Review: Out of Control Criminal Justice

Book Review: Out of Control Criminal Justice

The book of interest has a black cover page with the title written in whitish greyish cover in capital letters. The subtitle then follows in lower cases, after which is the author’s name in capital letters. The remaining part of the cover page has caption words, some in capital letters and other small letters, which preferably demonstrate a decay in the society, preferably from the words shocking and hate crime. The title of the book is out of control criminal justice, and the subtitle is the system improvement solution for more safety, justice, accountability, and efficiency. It is written by Daniel P. Mears and published in the Cambridge university press. The focus is going to be on overview of the review for this book to ascertain what the author was intent on providing to the society.

Written by Daniel P. Mears, the Out of Control Criminal Justice book is intent on revolutionizing systems for providing solutions to better safety, justice, accountability, and efficiency. It depicts a broken system of justice and out of control. The people within the criminal justice need research-based research that will hook on them to enable continuous evaluation for their improvement to exclude ineffective strategies and include the effective ones. The book has been under many authors’ reviews, although its publication is in the Cambridge University. It portrays the relationship between manufacturing businesses to criminal justice as he sets to expose for reform on the messy aspects of the criminal justice system in the United States.

The first chapter is a detailed look at the system justice approach and what should be to incorporate a system justice approach. An overview of problems in this system is clear and the necessary development policy. There is an explanation of operations and the issues facing them. Some of the problems with the criminal justice system are recidivism, high crime rates, harsh policies, drug substance crimes, and profiling on racial. Those problems that are least under tackling include the public dissatisfaction and the lack of government institutionalization on accountability. All these problems are from the enaction of policies without considering their evidence base. The component of each chapter is in the first chapter of the book..

Chapter two shows some other areas of dealing with to give a vivid understanding of systems.They show how networks function and how subsystems impact on one another. The several types of system problems are also here and their effects, with them being the no caption, intuition, and the failure to appreciate challenges. The no caption problem is the most imminent throughout the book. The correlational quackery is the term that the author explains to be used by researchers in describing policy development without a research o evidence basis.

The system captured here does not work towards reducing crime and the unfair treatment to the citizens, and so there is injustice perpetuation and crime creation wastefully and irresponsibly. Therefore it is totally out of control, and efficiency is difficult to enact. The author emphasizes that people are not regarding the criminal justice system like an essential one and thus to be viewed as a manufacturing business for the best expose of its failures and the problems. He storms into this matter in a twofold manner. The first emphasis is on the need for studying the system to bring about improvement, and the other one is suggestions as to why there should be formulation, implementation, and a semblance of the systems approach about crime and criminal justice. It puts the book into lawmakers’ libraries, criminal justice practitioners, researchers, and al interested groups in this field.

Chapter three emphasizes on explaining about a system and its different features. The goals and the results from operations and the forces to the impacts are inclusive. The dynamics of services is most common of all. There are more details on how subsystems interact with one another and show how criminal justice actions can impact one another. Decisions on the sentences by courts determine the offenders to be for corrections. The type of causal relationship is in precise detail. The changes within systems could be direct or indirect. There are reversible changes through different changes in the initial operations and those that are irreversible. Stakeholders have to aware of their various roles for them to be successful in the systems. There are many stakeholders, but the most important of all are the practitioners, and the researchers and support come from proofs by Childs and Potter, who show that there should be trust and goal understanding in a research-based agency partnership. The meaning of a theory in a system based description is under this chapter with capture on external forces system impacts. Those systems that successfully embrace change are the ant fragile and are always secure.

The book portrays a manufacturing business operation to be consistent with coherently organized parts with a profit-making goal where all the pieces have to be contributive part of this. There is also interdependency in the systems that lead to a surplus, and this calls for a thorough, regular. Consistent evaluation of all the assembly line aspects for the system goal achievement and the author claims that businesses cannot survive without this examination. The efficiency is due to the analysis and evaluation of the findings, repairs, and replacement to worn out parts that slow down or stops proper functioning.

The same concept of a criminal justice system is like a business operation is where the parts and subsystems are both independent and interdependent. The arrangements here include law enforcement, courts, and corrections, each having elements and components that cause the complexity and difficulty of the entire structure. The systems adhere to functions of its own, which are distinguishable from their operational physical spaces such as the police department would be under terms of the courthouse or prison under the structure of the uniforms and the executive organizational level. Although there are these imminent differences, the system has to be working together for the attainment of shared goals, which is the achievement of public safety and justice with accountability and efficiency.

The description of a system as a contemporary criminal justice one is in chapter four. There is a precise data to the different stakeholders, outcomes from goals, external forces dynamics, elements, theories, and responses within the system. Criminal justice policies are under description without giving credence to their effectiveness and problems for new approaches policy. Many states do not support criminal justice funding, and this is not causing a discrepancy in crime. Changes in law are to impact the criminal justice system most largely. Offenders are the inputs for processing in the criminal justice system, although it is clear that the system. The high cost of funding for different subsystems is compared to a person without the taste sense seasoning the restaurant’s food to portray the managers to the criminal justice funding who do not consider the effective use of the funds.

The system, however, cannot work independently for the achievement of public safety and justice. It is because the systems approach application is has been supportive of interdependency in the system components, and thus, there is a need for a concerted effort from all. Factors leading to the crime have to be known with their effects on the system and subsystem. The criminal justice system is dynamic and thus can change fir efficiency because of its adaptability.

Explanations on improving the safety, justice, and accountability and efficiency platforms are in chapter five. Conducting system research is vital here and also the implication of multi-stakeholder policy processes where there are the decisions to be policy measures to agree upon, programs, and practices to follow the structured evidence keeping off from intuitions and ideologies. Several factors are the cause of criminal justice system complexity. Such factors are globalization, revolutions in communication, and the terrorists’ acts. Two scholars Trahan and Steward, complement the author’s information through providing solutions to evidence by use of viable approaches. Their message includes a mixed method of research in both a quantitative and qualitative basis.

The weaknesses of a criminal justice system are apparent in the first four chapters of the book. The standard practices in the subsystems like community policing, mandatory sentencing, confinement to solitude, and visitation to prisons are under motion, where he concludes that most of the policies and reforms do not support interconnectedness. He terms the changes to be short-sighted and not long term because they do not have an insight into the bigger picture of the system. An effect into one subsystem from a reform may show results easily and fail to show the unintended ones to the other subsystems. Changes on levels such as the federal are not to affect others like

Most of the time is the involvement of the full spectrum of all levels stakeholders such as the lawmakers, individuals working within the system, suspects, offenders, victims, and the residing communities with the general citizens show formulation and implementation of reforms. Empirical research findings are not what the changes are based on but are from personal beliefs and ideologies. The result from this is the criminal justice agencies working on different short term goals with deep fragmentations, flawless, and broken downrightness.

A considerable part of the book critiques the state of the criminal justice system with the later portions of the book showing the possible solutions to the predicaments termed to be the system improvement solution. It has three interrelated steps where the first focus research into the system and not the other parts that have to be under a lead agency. He quotes the most troublesome problem in the system to be the fragmented nature and does not have captain guidance. The captain can lead and direct operations clearly through comprehensive and long term planning. The system would otherwise run out of control for lacking steering of the lead agency that he terms as amok. The systems improvement solution embraces a diverse multi-stakeholder approach with all the under the system effectively in the processes of policy designation and implementation. Practitioners and researchers have to partner because research must have theory and practice understanding. The process should not leave behind victims, offenders, and the community. The study should also have evidence and be under a systematic review regularly. The author believes the system improvement solution and the outlined steps to lead into a successful work for common goals, which are public safety, justice, accountability, and efficiency.

The repetitive nature of the book is explicit, with revisits to previous examples and the steps of the system improvement solution. The book repetition is most imminent here because of the revalidation of the many used earlier models with the actions of the system improvement solution. The readers get a recap that the researchers have to be part of the policy design and implementation steps with their work being non-partisan and deliberate. The next chapter gives a summary and sketch to the approach value. The author emphasizes a call to action for the control of dysfunctions that are possible through implementing the system improvement solution, a public safety refocus, justice accountability and efficiency, and full criminal justice system reorganization.The author’s message intent to openness and cooperation among the criminal justice system practitioners, researchers, and all included places the book invaluable to the system and the system improvement solution relevant to considering the current system failures.

The book’s great organization is both a significant feature and a weakness. The manuscript can easily be read, making the readers devoid of the experience and category expansion. The emotions complexities are left out in a dilemma situation in a tidy package and also how they impact on the experience. Some of the author’s most fascinating findings are also missing in terms of the way opportunities should be under analysis and interrogation. The various archetypes resulting from the patient’s experiences are that it is in incorporation and literature discussion with some work enriching the book’s conclusions and findings such as the social class entitlement.

The writer, as an award winner and a criminologist in this book, has shown a piercing and deliberate map to retrieving the justice system and save many costs recommendable to the American citizens, politicians, and policymakers. The systems have had massive incorporations of incarceration, sentencing people on mandatory terms, and strict judges and prosecutors. The book has a delivery of a clear criminal justice reform outline. It can also be of help to the learners in fields of sociology, criminology, public policy, and social work. Social work students will find it of use because of the inclusion of social inequality

As seen from this, the book can reach diverse readers. To the scholars and other readers, they see the necessary arguments from a system problem resulting from crime and injustice. To the policymakers, administrators, and the entire practitioners, the disadvantages of a policy piecemeal reform are on overview; hence they avoid them. The general public has an eye on how a criminal justice system should provide to them.

It is not weird to argue that the criminal justice system the author analyses call for a need for smaller-scale mixed methods of research and analysis. The qualitative approach needs to be the first choice to address public dissatisfaction. The use of qualitative methods does not spend much time and depends on secondary data; thus, the process becomes more comfortable and faster. The human factor is also not part of the data-driven empirical research. It appears difficult for the implementation of a system improvement solution; there are exciting and evocative ideas shown by the author.

It is not only the criminal justice department that faces system problems. The problems are pervasive in society. In the medical systems, we have witnessed the medical department having flaws that lead to poor practice, less health as well as the loss of lives. There are also a lot of struggles among the social practice systems to provide solutions to timely and effective manners. American children are portraying a lot of academic failures from their school systems. Many recessions are imminent in the economy with weak housing markets depicting the failing economic policies. All of where they apply is ineffectiveness and inefficiency.

Configuring to system improvement solution has to avoid some pitfalls. The benefits accrue from the main goals, where there are also recommendations for avoiding the pitfalls. The insufficient funding for implementation is one of them. Legislatures should channel some funding to the research. Support to this is the limited criminal justice managers’ access to additional resources and funding and stretch their hand to the effectiveness of the various programs. They have to be aggressive out of these and prefer complex implementation. It is an attribute from work on realizing the data-driven decision that leads to the real values of institutions before their execution. Several stakeholders must participate in this and have a strong belief altogether.

Policymakers tend to advocate for change in crime and justice policy as imminent in federal laws. The changes to be made should touch the root causes of corruption, injustice, and accountability with inefficiency because of not following valid reasons for empirical assessments. It brings about out of control a situation that the author emphasizes. The author proposes the systems to use for dealing with such cases for the system improvement solutions. Thus federal, states, and local governments should borrow this idea and implement the necessary approaches. They should do so in system focused strategies because the courses do not have much impact.

In conclusion, several societal problems are what the author tries to put forward in the book with the issues being in part from the criminal justice department. The other departments are also under suggestions such as healthcare, education, environment, among others. My opinion is that I would recommend this book to any vivid learner with the intent of solving problems. Thus, the author’s ideas hit onto the points, and therefore I give him a five-star rating, for it is even of my help to me and provides possible solutions to modern society.

Reference

Daniel P. Mears (2017). Out of Control criminal justice. The systems improvement solution for more safety, justice, accountability, and efficiency. Florida State University. Cambridge University Press.

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