Policy Overview and the Role of Research in Criminal Justice Policy
Criminal Justice Policy Development and Implementation
Policy Monitoring and Models for Policy Evaluation
Development of Alternative Solutions and Strategies
Policy in Practice: Evaluating Policy Outcomes and Impact
100
Actions taken by public servants to address criminal justice needs.
What is criminal justice policy?
100
Analyzing the problem is the first step in this.
What is policy development?
100
Policy monitoring focuses on facts while this focuses on both facts and values.
What is policy evaluation?
100
Effectiveness, efficiency, adequacy, equity, responsiveness and appropriateness are criteria for identifying these.
What are alternate solutions and strategies?
100
A top-down policy focus will consider policy theory and goals while this focus will consider contextual and field variables at the bottom of the system.
What is a bottom-up policy focus?
200
These represent the two types of conflicting ideologies, or views, that underlie and contribute to the complexities of criminal justice policy.
What are liberal and conservative ideologies?
200
Carrying out an adopted policy by administrative units that mobilize financial and human resources to comply with the policy.
What is policy implementation?
200
Experimental design, quasi-experimental design and before-and-after studies are examples of these.
What are research or evaluation models?
200
When analyzing a policy alternative, these two opposite extremes should be considered.
What are best and worst case scenarios?
200
These represent the 3 directions of response an implementing agency can take that will affect policy in practice.
What is acceptance, neutrality and rejection?
300
This serves as the data collection and assessment point for policy development and helps gain justification and evidence to support a recommended policy and its components.
What is research?
300
Specialization and division of labor, a hierarchal nature, and formal rules that dictate operations are characteristics of this.
What is bureaucracy?
300
This tracks a policy's ongoing progress to ensure implementation is carried out according to plan.
What is policy monitoring?
300
A favorable political environment and policy entrepreneurs that devote energy and resources are just two factors that contribute to this.
What is policy success?
300
A process evaluation determines how a program impact was achieved while this type evaluation determines how effective a program was in producing change.
What is an outcome evaluation?
400
Provides a 360-degree view of a policy and gives decision makers significant information on how a policy works and its effect in practice.
What is policy analysis?
400
Using judgments, opinions, or reasoning to make decisions in the course of carrying out public policies.
What is bureaucratic discretion?
400
Making programs look good by focusing on their surface characteristics (“eyewash”) and covering up program failures (“white-wash”) are two examples of these.
What are barriers to effective evaluation?
400
One strategy for choosing policy alternatives is to consider only those that differ in this way from the status quo.
What is incrementally?
400
These represent the 2 lowest levels of policy outcomes.
What are short-term and intermediate?
500
These two models of the criminal justice system tend to reflect their underlying liberal and conservative ideologies.
What are the Crime Control/Public Order and Due Process/Individual Rights models?
500
These represent the two types of discretion narratives.
What are the state-agent and citizen-agent narratives?
500
Using reliable and valid methods and having specific criteria to evaluate policy outcomes are two factors that contribute to this.
What is effective policy evaluation?
500
Unlimited alternatives often exist for these type of policy problems.
What are ill-structured or difficult to bound problems?
500
Shifts in social norms and changes in social and physical lives and conditions are two examples of this type of policy impact.