News - Green Paper: Engaging Communities in the Criminal Justice
The 'Engaging Communities in Criminal Justice Green Paper' offers opportunities to improve the offer from criminal justice services to communities and to bring about real and positive change in the public’s relationship with the CJS. The proposals should enable local people to:
- Get more information about justice outcomes in a format that suits them, linked to information on crime maps
- Find out about outcomes of cases of particular local concern on-line and in other ways
- Have a say in how recovered assets are used and how initiatives like Community Payback are run in their area
- Feed their views into the heart of the justice system through face-to-face meetings with Community Prosecutors, magistrates and neighbourhood policing teams and through Community Impact Statements
- Benefit from problem-solving techniques pioneered through Community Justice
- Get feedback on how their information has been used and what happened in the case;
- Get involved, through more joined up and effective engagement activities or by taking up one of the many volunteering opportunities with criminal justice organisations
You can view the full document here
You can view a short guide to the Paper here