Policy Project Part 1: Project Outline
Current crime control practices resulted in part from research on past practices. Current research will in turn affect future practices. Your Policy Project allows you to impact future shifts in criminal justice policy or processes.

For Part 1, review the Learning Resources and complete the first part of your Policy Project, for which you identify a current need related to a crime problem or process related to policy and identify the objective of your policy recommendation. You also highlight three alternatives for approaching the problem or process using a minimum of five scholarly resources. You outline the potential outcomes of your policy recommendation including the manifest outcomes (intended effects) and latent outcomes (unintended side effects). You also describe a potential means of evaluating your recommended policy.

Submit  an outline of your Policy Project as a PowerPoint presentation. Be sure to include a minimum of 12 slides, including at least one slide for each of the following:
Identification of a crime problem or process issue related to a criminal justice policy
Objective/intent of the policy recommendation
Bibliography of a minimum of five refereed scholarly journal articles for inclusion in the review of literature
Note: You are encouraged to have more sources but you are only required to have five.
List of three possible alternative approaches to the crime problem or process issue and best practices (1 per slide)
Explanation of manifest and latent consequences of your policy recommendation
Proposed method for evaluation of the policy (e.g., observation, experiment, survey, official records)

NOTE: this is going to be on the Juvenile crimes that you pick

Learning Resources:
Required Resources
Readings
Wilson, J. Q., & Petersilia, J. (2011). Crime and public policy. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Chapter 2, “Crime in International Perspective” (pp. 5–52)

The chapter provides an overview of international crime and policy relative to the United States. It begins with an overview of common perceptions regarding how the U.S. compares to other nations in crime and punishment. It gives the authors’ recommendations for the proper use of cross-national comparative data, common sources of data, and limitations of that data. The chapter closes by comparing international crime and punishment data and exploring how this data relates to American perceptions of crime and punishment.
Chapter 14, “General Deterrence: A Review of Recent Evidence” (pp. 411–436)

This chapter provides evidence on the deterrent effect of several crime control practices. The chapter also addresses the effects of arrest rates and laws on individual perceptions of risk associated with committing crime and the subsequent impact of those perceptions on criminal behavior.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service. (n.d.). Topical index. Retrieved from https://ncjrs.gov/viewall.html

This website provides a keyword-searchable database of research and statistics on a wide variety of criminal justice topics.
Document: Policy Project Overview (PDF)

This document provides an overview of the Policy Project along with detailed requirements for each part.
Media
National Public Radio (Producer). (2012, September 20). Is ‘Tough on Crime’ no longer a talking point? [Radio program]. Retrieved from http://www.npr.org/2012/09/20/161475623/is-tough-on-crime-no-longer-a-talking-point

This radio program presents an interview with Marc Mauer from the Sentencing Project and Marc Levin from Right on Crime. These political organizations advocate for criminal justice reform from different political perspectives and provide an overview of the Democratic and Republican views on criminal justice reform.