Evaluating Criminal Justice Policy (5)

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1. Select a criminal justice policy you are interested in and design an experimental study to evaluate the effectiveness of the policy. B. Identify the policy you selected. Baltimore City Drug Treatment Court C. Briefly describe the policy, its goal, and potential beneficiaries. The policy of the Baltimore City Drug Treatment Court aims to reduce rearrests and reconvictions for drug-involved individuals with drug-addiction histories. Rather than having these individuals on the streets, this policy aims to provide drug supervision, a comprehensive treatment program, reduce recidivism, and provide academic and vocational skill development for these individuals. 2. Select the type of evaluation design you choose to evaluate the efficacy of your policy. - A student must choose one of the following experimental designs that were introduced: Randomized Controlled Trial/Experiment 3. Use notations (symbols/letters) to represent the design you selected to use to evaluate this policy. ○ X = Treatment = Intervention = Policy = Independent Variable = Presumed Cause = Baltimore City Drug Treatment Court Intervention ○ Y = Outcome = Dependent Variable = Presumed Effect = rearrests and reconvictions ○ G = Group = Collection of The Unit of Analysis = drug-involved individuals with drug-addiction histories ○ R = Random Assignment = individuals are assigned to an intervention program to better their lives or assigned to the control group, meaning they do not receive the intervention program 4. Discuss the reason why you chose this particular design to evaluate this policy over other evaluation design(s). You must address the following aspects : ● a. The ability of your design to establish causality. I chose the design of RCT because of the random assignment. The random assignment process establishes a casualty because it ensures that every individual receives an equal
chance of getting the intervention. This method was the most unbiased because everyone had a fair chance of receiving the intervention program. 5. Identify all the potential threats to Internal Validity. ○ Explain why it is a (or they are) the potential threat(s) to the internal validity of your study. The potential threats to the Baltimore City Drug Treatment Court's internal validity consist of every individual's history. An individual's past can impact the outcome of the policy. Another threat could be analyzing the wrong data or too much data from the participants. In terms of maturation, psychological changes of an individual can affect the study. This can affect the study results because the results will depend on multiple factors rather than just their history.
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