What factors influence the development of criminal justice policies? Criminal justice policy also uses language that has inherent social and moral connotations such as criminals, delinquency, community dysfunction, social isolation, individual and environmental criminogenic factors. he cause of dysfunction, our various theories propose, are nternal and external factors such as lack of political power, poverty mentality, lack of economic viability, lack of educational achievement, single female head of household families, absent fathers, and so on. Is crime a matter of individual chosen behavior or the result of environmental factors that are beyond the control or responsibility of the individual, the equivalent of being in a home contaminated with influenza? Garrison (n.d.) You can have so many factors influence the development of criminal justice policies it just depends the nature of the crime and how it all starts in the home for example is it a broken home from domestic violence, is there an absent parent because they are incarcerated, and some that just have problematic child. It can be so many things that influence crime and how policies work but some policies are sometimes changed. Garrison. A.H. (n.d.) The Influence of Research on Criminal Justice Policy Making. Retrieved from https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c574/7e556d0ae524f6f5066507c6c90dgee1a413.pdf