Criminal Justice Policy and Planning

Planned Change
6. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-85846-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Unlike other textbooks on the subject, this book presents a comprehensive and structured account of the process of administering planned change in the criminal justice system. The authors detail a simple yet sophisticated seven-stage model, which offers students and practitioners a full account of program and policy development from beginning to end. Within these stages, students focus on performing essential procedures, such as conducting a systems analysis, specifying an impact model, identifying target populations, making cost projections, collecting monitoring data, and performing evaluations. In reviewing these steps and procedures, students can develop a full appreciation for the challenges inherent in the process and understand the tools they require to meet those challenges. To provide for a greater understanding of the material, the text uses a wide array of real-life case studies and examples of programs and policies. By examining the successes and failures of various innovations, the authors demonstrate both the ability of rational planning to make successful improvements and the tendency of unplanned change to result in undesirable outcomes. The result is a powerful argument for the use of logic, deliberation, and collaboration in criminal justice innovations.

This readable volume is ideal as a primary or supplemental text in criminal justice policy-related courses, and also serves as a useful reference for practitioners in the field tasked with strategic planning for policy change.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edwards, Bradley D.

Welsh, Wayne N.

Harris, Philip W.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Polizei
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1. Analyzing the Problem

Chapter 2. Setting Goals and Objectives

Chapter 3. Designing the Program or Policy

Chapter 4. Action Planning

Chapter 5. Problem/Policy Implementation and Monitoring

Chapter 6. Evaluating Outcomes

Chapter 7. Reassessment and Review

Appendix. A Seven-Stage Checklist for Program/Policy Planning and Analysis

Über Autor(innen)

Wayne N. Welsh is Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice at Temple University. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Criminal Justice and Behavior, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Crime & Delinquency, and Criminology. Welsh served as Deputy Editor of The Prison Journal from 1993 to 2000. He has conducted research in two broad areas: (1) applications of organizational theory to criminal justice and examinations of organizational change; and (2) theories of violent behavior and intervention/prevention programs.

Philip W. Harris is Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University, where he taught courses and conducted research on juvenile justice policy, organizational development, and program and policy analysis for 35 years. Prior to arriving at Temple in 1980, he served as a professional services administrator for a private juvenile correctional agency in Montreal, where he was responsible for assessment services and staff training. Harris is the 2001 recipient of the Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Government Service Award, given annually by the American Evaluation Association, and was awarded the 2005 Marguerite Warren and Ted Palmer Award from the Sentencing and Corrections Division of the American Society of Criminology.

Bradley D. Edwards is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology at East Tennessee State University, where he teaches classes primarily related to policy analysis. His previous publications include the areas of policing, corrections, ethics, corporate misconduct, and rural crime. He has also served as the author or co-author on several previous Routledge books. These include Introduction to Criminal Justice, which is currently in its 10th edition, and Justice, Crime, and Ethics, which is in its 11th edition.