Assignment task:
State legislatures continue to seek budget-friendly alternatives to incarceration. The legislatures, however, want to ensure their money is being well spent. To that end, you have been asked to rate the effectiveness of a local or national organization/non-profit organization that is based on the prevention of or rehabilitation of offenders. These programs can be intervention-based, in that they attempt to prevent or deter crime, or they can be rehabilitative, in that they seek to rehabilitate offenders. One common program is Alcoholics Anonymous or AA. As a final alternative, the federal government measures the effectiveness of many such programs and publishes the results online.
What is the intended population?
What standard are you using to measure the effectiveness?
Why do you think it is effective and worthy of continued funding?
Why is this a better alternative than incarceration?
Is this approach too soft on crime?