Running Head: INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDER 1 INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS 5 Internal and External Stakeholders Student’s Name University Affiliation Internal and External Stakeholders 1. Identify the Internal and External Stakeholders. Internal stakeholders in this issue are individuals within the criminal justice system who directly contribute to this issue (Baugh, 2015). They include police officers, correctional officers, probation officers, parole officer, judges as well as inmates. The external stakeholders include the government and society in general. They are the individuals who do not make up the criminal justice system but in one way or another affect it (Baugh, 2015). 2. Discuss how internal or external stakeholders have influenced the situation in a positive or negative way? The influence of the external stakeholders on this issue is mostly negative. The government, on one hand, has negatively influenced this issue by allowing it to go on for so long and even to grow in two main ways. The first way is through lack of proper policy formulation and implementation. The government is in charge of running the prisons and the overall criminal justice system. They have failed in terms of not having good enough policies in place that can first and foremost reduce the level of delinquency in our society and consequently the number of offenders and also policies to help solve the issue of overcrowding given the fact that this is an issue that has persisted on for such a long time. Government efforts have obviously not been successful in bringing the number of offenders down and also reducing the level of overcrowding and this is a major reason why this problem has really persisted on (Dandurand & Griffiths, 2006). The government has also failed in terms of funding since they have not been able to adequately fund the prisons to meet the needs of the big population of inmates or build more prison facilities to accommodate the growing numbers. The society, on the other hand, has influenced this issue negatively in the simple sense that offenders come from the society. The level of moral degradation in the society is the source of this negative influence alongside the lack of proper values, systems and role models among other social issues. This has seen more and more individuals get into crime and as a result, there are large numbers of offenders being arrested who end up overcrowding the prisons. The influence of the internal stakeholders is both negative and positive. Some internal stakeholders such as parole officers and probation officers have contributed positively. This is because there are a lot of efforts from the parole and probation department to give alternative sentences for prisoners who have shown positive changes by allowing them to serve in parole in probation and consequently easing the population in the prisons (Dandurand & Griffiths, 2006). Courts, however, have had a negative influence becaus ...