Topic > Bureaucracy and bureaucracy in criminal justice...

For example, the bureaucratic political model is a notion that suggests that political members represent opinions based on a respected political ideology. Andrew Heywood argued that “political actors simply have opinions based on their own position and the interests of the organizations in which they work” (Heywood, 2011, p. 132). This reasoning may also be implicit in criminal justice systems that rely on these rigid government and administrative procedures. The most obvious are the courts and stages of criminal proceedings which can be a long and complex process. Governance has also broadened the crime agenda due to the accountability and privatization agenda which has arguably led to the blurring of boundaries. For example, the private control and ownership of the probation service suggests that crime is a major and difficult problem to manage. Most importantly, privatization means a transfer of state ownership to private sectors such as probation and the National Health Service. In fact, the government's privatization strategy derives from an economic system of neoliberal governance supported by the deregulation of financial markets and cuts in public spending. This resulted in similar functions within criminal systems