Sharing and utilizing accurate information within a criminal justice organization helps in steering forward the goals of the organizations as well as delivering justice to citizens. In criminal justice organizations, both formal and informal communication comes with advantages and disadvantages. Formal, communication comes with uniformity but restricts the free flow of information in the organization (Warkentin & Willison, 2009). Informal communication, on the other hand, allows for free flow of information but restricts uniformity. Lack of information in such organizations would lead to total breakage in delivering justice and sometimes lead to a false conviction or even exoneration of the guilty (Gil-Garcia et al., 2005).
A clear example of lack of information is in the case where Ronald Eubanks and Darryl Adams were accused of a rape case in 1992 after they were found sleeping close to a woman. At first, the woman denied that she was raped, but once she pulled out from the two men, she twisted the story and accused Adams of raping her. Due to lack of accurate information, the two men pleaded guilty and were charged with the rape case. Twenty years later and with the help of the Innocence project, they requested for a DNA, and new information was released. Adams’ writ was granted, and in March 2016 the Texas Court of Criminal Appeal vacated the petition. On 2017 February 8th, the prosecution dismissed the charges against the two accused. Some of the barriers to lack of accurate information, in this case, include misidentification of an eye witness, false confession and admission, inadequate defense and inability to listen by the involved parties.
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In overcoming the barriers mentioned above, a proper investigation should be done before issuing sentencing. The officers doing investigation should be impartial and stick to the ethical code of conduct. They should be able to listen to the accused and seek to understand rather than putting pressure on them to plead to the charges. The criminal justice organizations should put mechanisms to seek as much accurate information as they can to deliver justice to the accused. Both informal and formal communication should be encouraged in such organizations to enable the free flow of information at any given point (Warkentin & Willison, 2009).
References
Gil-Garcia, J. R., Schneider, C. A., Pardo, T. A., & Cresswell, A. M. (2005, January). Interorganizational information integration in the criminal justice enterprise: Preliminary lessons from state and county initiatives. In System Sciences, 2005. HICSS'05. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on (pp. 118c-118c). IEEE.
Warkentin, M., & Willison, R. (2009). Behavioral and policy issues in information systems security: the insider threat. European Journal of Information Systems , 18 (2), 101-105.
