Discussion 1
Select one of the following Activities from Chapter 8 of Crime Prevention for your initial post.
a. Activity: Three Strikes
b. Activity: Drug Courts
c. Activity: Specialized Courts
Your initial post must be a minimum of 250 words in length. Support your post with examples from your required reading material and /or other scholarly sources, and provide in-text citation in APA style.
Respond to at least two of your classmates' posts by Day 7. For these responses, select at least one classmate who chose to address an Activity different from your own. In your responses to their posts, address the following:
a. Is there a crime prevention program in the policing or corrections areas that would complement the initiative addressed by your classmates?
b. What concept or theory would support your position?
c. Will the initiative positively or negatively impact social justice for all groups or just targeted segments of society?
Discussion 2
Select one of the following Activities from Chapter 9 of Crime Prevention for your initial post.
a. Activity: How Much Are Americans Spending for Corrections?
b. Activity: Restorative Justice
Your initial post must be a minimum of 250 words in length. Support your post with examples from your required reading material and /or other scholarly sources, and provide in-text citation in APA style.
Respond to at least two of your classmates' posts by Day 7. For these responses, select at least one classmate who chose to address an Activity different from your own. In your responses to their posts, address the following:
a. With respect to your classmate's initial post, how do the concepts of re-entry and re-integration of prisoners back into society affect your selection of a crime prevention program?
b. Does society have a responsibility to fund and implement programs like these?
c. Do these programs have an effect on recidivism?
Discussion 3
During this course you will submit three journal article reviews from the Ashford Online Library. You can use this research in your Final Project, due in Week Five. The reviews will addresses crime prevention strategies through one of the following criminal justice system components:
a. Policing Crime Prevention Programs - policing, schools, community oriented policing (covered in Chapter 7 of Crime Prevention)
b. Court Crime Prevention Programs - the Courts or sentencing (covered in Chapter 8 of Crime Prevention)
c. Corrections Crime Prevention Programs - corrections, jails and prisons, boot camps, rehabilitation, or restoration (covered in Chapter 9 of Crime Prevention)
There are journal article reviews due in Weeks One, Three, and Four. For this week, select an article on a corrections crime prevention program. In this review, do the following:
a. Summarize the article. Which type of crime prevention strategy is being addressed?
b. Identify the key findings and recommendations.
c. Cite the article in APA format. Information on APA is available in the Ashford Writing center, located within the Learning Resources tab on the left navigation toolbar.
Your initial post must be a minimum of 250 words in length.
After reviewing your classmates' journal article reviews, what assumptions need to be made to incorporate the corrections-initiated crime prevention strategy? Does the corrections-initiated crime prevention program cause problems for either the courts or law enforcement as part of the overall criminal justice system?