Criminal Justice Policy

Criminal Justice Policy Applicability While both policy monitoring and policy evaluation present different benefits to criminal justice policy, policy monitoring presents the greatest value to

A majority of the American people feel that gun control laws will help reduce crime rates because the waiting period would allow time for a person’s temper to cool down. They also feel that gun control will prevent repeat offenders because when a person tries to purchase a handgun, he will have to fill out a lengthy questionnaire. The questionnaire will include questions about the buyer’s past, for example, if they have a criminal record or a record of any mental illness. If there is a criminal record in that person’s history, he will not be able to make the purchase. Restricting handgun ownership would also reduce crime, because guns are used most often in robberies and murders (Mayer 28). They are very easily concealed under a coat, or even in the waistband of pants.

Review of Violent Crime Control and Law A Review of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act Introduction The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 is the largest most encompassing Criminal Act to have ever been passed in United States History. The act not only addressed criminal activities it also allowed for 9.7 billion dollars to be spent on prisons, 6.1 billion dollars to be spent on crime prevention programs, 2.6 billion dollars to fund DEA, INS, and other Justice Department entities. Obtained valuable input from experienced police officers as well as made a way for 100,000 new police officers to be hired nationwide. The Act also addressed issues regarding the governments dealing with those who committee crimes but are not in the United States legally. To understand how an Act this massive is able to pass into law this paper explores both the pre-decision and decision process which lead to adoption this Federal Act.

Many tragedies have occurred recently that have spurred the debate on whether or not we need tighter gun controls. On one side of the debate are the gun control supporters, who claim that the easy access to guns is the primary cause for high rates of crime plaguing the United States. On the other side are people who argue that gun laws will not prevent criminals from obtaining guns, since they will continue to get them illegally. Guns are used for protection when in the hands of people who obey the law. It is crucial to not hinder law-abiding citizen’s ability to possess firearms with stricter gun laws, since gun laws do not lower crime, and guns can keep people safe.

The Public Policy of Crime and Criminal Justice, by Nancy E. Marion and Willard M. Oliver. Published by Prentice Hall. Copyright © 2006 by Pearso

Criminal Justice Trends Evaluation Sean R. Callesto CJA 394 December 20, 2012 Jeromy Orton Criminal Justice Trends The past trends of the criminal justice system are how we evaluate the system as a whole, and how we strive to make it better. The present is full of ideas towards a better future involving those better ideas made in the past. With today’s society of highly educated individuals, we can only speculate on what the future of the criminal justice system will be, but we can be assured of one certainty, it will change. The value of the criminal justice system in a changing society will also play a factor in what will become of the criminal justice system itself.

Unfortunately, the financial trend that has been seen in policing will likely continue for the foreseeable future, which will not only limit the ability to confront these new critical issues, but will likely exacerbate them as well (Police Executive, 2013). It is also foreseeable that new state efforts to combat their overall economic struggles will serve as a critical issue with adverse policing affects as well. More and more states continue to modify their early release policies, putting criminals back onto the streets sooner and in greater numbers than ever before, which has caused

According to Arthur Garrison (2009), Criminal justice policy research seeks to provide assessment and analysis of crime and provide strategies for its reduction. Policy making in criminal justice needs to utilize the formal evaluation process rather than decision-theoretic evaluation and pseudoevaluation. The reason that I chose this evaluation process model is that it is the only one of the three that monitors a policy through various stages of the life cycle of the policy, frequent and longer cycles; summative and formative. Policies cannot just be implemented and monitored in criminal justice. Formal evaluations bring a check and balances system to the evaluation process through developmental evaluation, retrospective process evaluation, experimental evaluation and retrospective evaluation. These policies that are implemented need to be monitored and subject to a vigorous

Research The studies and research on gun control has opened up many ideas on how weak the current laws really are. Crime rates consist of high numbers. “Since 1982, there have been at least 62 mass shootings across the country, with the killings unfolding in 30 states from Massachusetts to Hawaii”

Policy Analysis III- Compare and Contrast Paper Brandy Alston University of Phoenix Criminal Justice Management Theory and Practice CJA/464 Professor Leroy Hendrix October 10, 2013 Policy Analysis III- Compare and Contrast Paper The reason for policy analysis reflects around the assessment of policies from the government by critiquing the failures and successes. The United States implement several policies to deal with criminal activity and social issues, for instance The United States Human Trafficking Policy, this policy is not a successful one but this policy is steadily improving with sustainable reform. The criminal justice system practice the model of Packard’s Due Process, established with the promise

Greeney Exaus Professor Brown COMP 1101/ Informative Essay 29 October 2017 Word Count: 978 America’s Troubled Gun Control Former Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer once said "Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and

Prisons where essentially build to accommodate a number of prisoners but over the years it has reach over capacity. Today in the United States there are approximately 193,468 federal inmates that consisting of the Bureau of Prisons Custody, private managed facilities and other facilities. The inmates ages range from 18- 65 with the median age being in their late 30’s. This number is counting both male and female population with male being 93.3% of inmates and females being 6.7%. The number of inmates has steadily increase since 1980 with only having approximately less than 50,000 but today the number has gone more up. Drug offenses are the highest number for inmate’s imprisonment, the next highest offense would be weapons, explosives and arson; immigration and miscellaneous fall next in lines. The number for the other offenses such as robbery, extortion, fraud, bribery, burglary, larceny, property offenses and other offenses are lower. Overcrowding prison has become problematic as the prison population continue to increase leading to proper care and attention for prisoners.

For decades, studies have been done using various empirical techniques employing different disciplinary approaches in an effort to estimate, as accurately as possible, the cost of crime to society. However, with challenges like unreported crimes, inflations and monetary conversion to quantify intangible costs, there are variations between estimates from the different techniques and drawbacks to implementing each of them.[1] Knowing the impact of crime to society is important in order to reaffirm that criminal justice interventions and policies made to mitigate, prevent and reduce crime are really effective. One way to do so is to look at the reduction in the number of attempted as well as committed crimes. However, the number of crimes does not portray the severity of each crime; a murder would be on the same level as theft.[2] Hence, researchers came up with a common metric as an alternative to judge the severity of crime, that is, the monetary costs of crime.[3] In policy-making, comparing the monetary costs of crime before and after a policy is implemented would judge how effective the policy is.

The purpose of evaluation research should be to record the effectiveness from various social programs, but there is always some potential error to occur. Evaluation research with criminology often has a bad reputation with a lack of validation due to multiple obstacles. Hagan (2014) explains that evaluation research is a scientific method that helps “guide public policy” with useful information (p. 286). A few complications to achieve this include poor research design, data collection, and data analysis are a few obstacles to overcome in criminal justice evaluation research (Hagan, 2014).

The Role of Statistics in Criminal Justice Nerisa Newton Grambling University Abstract In this paper, the main objective will be to outline the importance of statistics as a method to analyze data in the field of Criminal Justice. Also, this paper will focus on ways in which data is obtained keeping in mind the