Assignment:
Define terms and phrases and explain differences as they apply.
Answer the following questions in a 750 to 1,050 word paper. You are encouraged to use these questions as subheadings:
- If your interviewee/program is law enforcement–related, do you believe that what they do is more community policing or problem-solving policing? Why?
- If you were going to categorize what they do, would you say it is more crime control or crime prevention? Why?
- Is what they do more of restorative justice, diversion, counseling, incapacitation, or some other form of crime prevention/control?
- Does this person/program focus more on crime control or due process? Why?
- Do you see your interviewee/program as being part of the official (traditional) criminal justice system, or are they outside of it (private company)?
- Does your interviewee/program seem more in tune with the conservative belief that crime is based on a rational decision-making process and that diversion is best achieved by strong deterrents? Or does your interviewee/program take more of a liberal approach, where social, physical, and psychological issues factor in and treatment and counseling are viewed as being more effective? Explain.
- Which of the goals of crime control (deterrence, retribution, incapacitation, rehabilitation) do you think best describes what your interviewee does? Explain.
- What are your personal views of what your interviewee does? Do you believe this impacts crime control/crime prevention?
- What suggestions would you make to improve the interviewee’s efforts?