Assignment:
Scenario: Your supervisor needs to be convinced of the need to incorporate criminological theory into the decisions that are made regarding departmental policy-making. You need help writing a memo for a departmental policy from one of the three following departments: law enforcement, the courts, or corrections.
Address the critical elements for the each of the criminological theories (conflict theory and anomie theory) Please include references.
1. Issue Presented: In a brief one-sentence question, summarize the importance of incorporating an understanding of the criminological theories into the decisions that are made regarding departmental policymaking.
2. Short Answer: Provide a short answer that summarizes the conclusion of the memorandum.
3. Statement of Facts: Describe how incorporating these two criminological theories will result in more effective policymaking.
4. Discussion: Using examples, briefly discuss at least one example of a departmental policy (from law enforcement, the courts, or corrections) that has effectively been revised to incorporate these two criminological theories.
5. Conclusion
6. Recommendations: Recommend incorporating an understanding of at the two criminological theories into a departmental policy in one of the three following departments: law enforcement, the courts, or corrections.