Understanding Criminal Justice Services

It is important for victim’s service providers to understand criminal justice system because of the following reasons.
Understanding helps service providers avoid contradiction with the criminal justice system, victim’s service provider’s plays key role in offering social support among other services to the victims; a lot of information about the criminal justice system must be in their possession to avoid contradiction with the system (National center of victims of crime, 2008). With better understanding of the whole process gives the service provider’s confidence in their duties, simply because they understand the limits as per the system. For instance, service providers as per the laws have to provide information about the victims, when they already know this; they will avoid a lot of …show more content…
Criminal justice system entails correction of behaviors among other duties, when they fully understand the entire process; such groups of people will be in a position to help the victims of crime from recommitting such a crime, through counseling sections and proper understanding of the laws (The United States Department of justice, 2014). Information on crime prevention can only be given and yield fruits when service providers fully understand the entire process of criminal justice, failure will result into shoddy information hence a crime may recur (The United States Department of justice, 2014). People who commit crimes need emotional support; service provider’s offers emotional support to such people. As they do this, they should be within the limits of the criminal justice system not to violet or underperform in their duties (The United States Department of justice, 2014). These are the benefits of criminal service providers having a full understanding of the entire criminal justice