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Spending Review
To reduce crime and the fear of crime and their social and economic costs; and to dispense justice fairly and efficiently and to promote confidence in the rule of law.
Objective I: to reduce the level of actual crime and disorder.
1. Reduce the key recorded crime categories of:
Objective II: to reduce the adverse impact of crime and disorder on people's lives.
2. Ensure by 2004 that the levels of fear of crime in the key categories of violent crime, burglary and car crime, reported in the British Crime Survey (BCS), are lower than the levels reported in the 2001 BCS.
Objective III: to reduce the economic costs of crime.
3. Reduce by 2004 the economic cost of crime as measured by an indicator to be developed by March 2001.
Objective IV: to ensure just processes and just and effective outcomes.
4. Reduce the rate of re-convictions:
Objective V: to deal with cases throughout the criminal justice process with appropriate speed.
5. Reduce by 2004 the time from arrest to sentence or other disposal by:
Objective VI: to meet the needs of victims, witnesses and jurors within the system.
6. Improve by 5 percentage points the satisfaction level of victims and witnesses with their treatment in the CJS by 2002 and thereafter at least maintain that level of performance.
Objective VII: to respect the rights of defendants and to treat them fairly.
7. Improve the standard by which the CJS meets the rights of defendants, by achieving by 2004 100% of targets in a basket of measures as defined in the CJS Business Plan.
Objective VIII: to promote confidence in the Criminal Justice System.
8. Improve the level of public confidence in the CJS by 2004, including that of ethnic minority communities.
9. Increase the number and proportion of recorded crimes for which an offender is brought to justice.
The CJS Departments will define and publish a value for money target for the Criminal Justice System by March 2001.
The Home Secretary, Lord Chancellor and Attorney General are jointly responsible for the commitments related to the overall performance of the CJS as set out in this PSA. There are separate PSAs for the Home Office, Lord Chancellor's Department, Law Officers' Departments (covering the Crown Prosecution Service) which are the component parts of the CJS and for which, respectively, the Home Secretary, Lord Chancellor and Attorney General are individually responsible.
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