Promoting Confidence and Engagement
Have you ever wondered what goes on at a courthouse, how a magistrate makes sentencing decisions or how you can do your bit to cut crime in your area?
The London Criminal Justice Board (CJB) has been helping to create opportunities for the capital’s residents to increase their understanding of the criminal justice service (CJS), and all the different agencies that are part of it. Providing communities with relevant information and engaging with all communities in a meaningful way is a key priority for the London CJB.
Through effective engagement we can increase public confidence in the CJS, showing that it is reflective of people’s views on crime and the priorities of communities. Increasing public confidence in the CJS is crucial to our goal of increasing participation.
We want more people to play an active role in creating safer communities. This means more members of the public are willing to report crime, to come forward as witnesses, to become a magistrate or look at the other interesting and fulfilling voluntary opportunities the CJS can offer.
Open court days, mock trials, school visits, art and music competitions as well as work placements are some of the ways young people are being engaged to think about the CJS and their perceptions of it.
The London CJB has developed a programme of work to improve engagement work by London’s criminal justice agencies, with the aim of reaching all of the capital’s diverse communities.