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Criminal Justice System Website

Catalogue reference: MJ 41

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MJ 41

This series contains links to gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of the Criminal Justice System website. [Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive using the links listed below (for a general explanation of...

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MJ 41

Title
Criminal Justice System Website
Date

From 2002

Description

This series contains links to gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of the Criminal Justice System website.

[Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive using the links listed below (for a general explanation of these parallel links, please see the Arrangement field)]:

Criminal Justice System (cjsonline.gov.uk)

Criminal Justice System (www.cjs.gov.uk)

Arrangement

Please see information at Divisional level.

This series contains more than one link to the ‘snapshots’ of this website. For some websites, the URL may change periodically. Despite this change to the URL these websites are part of the same record series as they represent the department or organisation’s presence on the web at the time. Occasionally, more than one domain URL to the same website may run in parallel creating an overlap.

Related material

See also Criminal Justice System Flowchart website in MJ 148

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Attorney General, 1461-1461
  • Home Office, 1782-1782
  • Ministry of Justice, 2007-2007
  • Office for Criminal Justice Reform, 2004-2004
Physical description

archived website(s)

Access conditions

Open

Immediate source of acquisition

Gathered from original website.

Subjects
Topics
Official publications
Accruals

Future website versions may be anticipated.

Administrative / biographical background

The Criminal Justice System (CJS) is one of the major public services in the country, with over 400,000 staff across six agencies: the Police Service, the Crown Prosecution Service, Her Majesty's Court Service, The National Offender Management Service (comprising prisons and probation) and the Youth Justice Board.

Within central government, three departments are jointly responsible for the Criminal Justice System and its agencies. They are:

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) which is responsible for criminal law and sentencing, for reducing re-offending and for prisons and probation. The MoJ also encompasses the responsibilities of the former Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA), overseeing Magistrates' Courts, the Crown Court, the Appeals Courts and the Legal Services Commission; The Home Office, which is responsible for crime and crime reduction, policing, security and counter-terrorism, borders and immigration, passports and identity; The Office of the Attorney General, which oversees the Crown Prosecution Service, the Serious Fraud Office and the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office.

The government body responsible for co-coordinating the efforts of all these organisations is the Office for Criminal Justice Reform (OCJR) which was set up in 2004 as a trilateral organisation to spur and join up improvement in the Criminal Justice System. OCJR is a cross-departmental organisation, which means that it reports to ministers in all three government departments mentioned above.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C18133/

Catalogue hierarchy

Over 27 million records

This record is held at The National Archives, Kew

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Criminal Justice System Website

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