In today's society the main issues and concerns involved in criminal justice and service provision is discrimination, stereotyping, social class and incarceration rates. As a result, I am of the view that the criminal justice policy reflects that of a punitive, rather than that of a rehabilitative perspective, because it aims to put perpetrators behind bars with little to no chance of rehabilitation. Therefore, in the case of discrimination, stereotyping, where women get lesser sentences for the same crimes men commit, and social class, where people with power serve insufficient to no time in a prison, I suggest, that a form of equality be established in handing down sentences. To reduce the incarceration rates, introducing more house arrest
