Select one major criminal justice reform area that has evolved over the past 50 years and evaluate the role that public opinion and public policy played in the reform. As part of the evaluation, you will be
expected to provide an overview of the evolution of public policy and opinion on the selected reform over the past 50 years. Examples of types of major criminal justice reforms that might be considered as topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Crime control policies
Drug enforcement policies
Policing strategies
Sentencing guidelines
Offender incarceration (punitive vs. rehabilitative approach)
Community corrections
Juvenile justice
Victim rights
Again, these are just examples of broad categories that you might select to examine in this research project. This research project is broken down into the following three components that will be completed during the course:
Part I of the Final Project includes the section of the research paper focused upon the history of the criminal justice reform. In this section, you will (1) identify and discuss the issues that are included with the selected reform, (2) provide a narrative timeline describing how the reform has evolved over the past 50 years, and (3) briefly discuss the relevance of this criminal justice reform to public policy making, specifically within the field of criminal justice.
Please note that you are only briefly discussing the connection between the selected criminal justice reform area and public policy making in the last part of this section of Part I of the project. A full discussion on the topics highlighted in
item 3 above will be included in the final paper.
Part I of the Final Project should be 5 - 7 pages in length, not counting the cover and reference pages. Please review the general guidelines for papers to obtain a description of other formatting requirements.
Final Project. The Final Project will consist of the following components: (1) Overview
section submitted during Unit III; (2) Criminal Justice Reform History section submitted during Unit V; and (3) Evaluation of the role public opinion and public policy played in the evolution of the selected criminal justice reform. Information presented in each section should be supported with scholarly resources.
Using APA guidelines! This should be approximately 3-5 pages in length. When combining project I and the final a final page count 10-14 pages in length, not counting the cover and reference pages.