ABSTRACT
In the previous two chapters we have looked at how policy is made and also identified some of the key people who are currently involved in making criminal justice policy in England and Wales. Both explicitly and implicitly we have focused on the role that politicians play in policy making. The inference is that policy making is the preserve of politicians, be they supra-national, national or local, suggesting that policy doing (implementation) is the preserve of officials, professionals and administrators. Whilst in reality this distinction is perhaps not as clear as we imply here, it is almost always the case that those that make policy and those that implement policy are different people. For example, the Justice Minister (currently Ken Clarke) is ostensibly responsible for making criminal justice policy but clearly he does not implement it. Thus, implementation of any policy that Ken Clarke makes becomes the responsibility of a number of criminal justice organisations and those people that work for them – the police, the courts, the prisons and so on.
