Criminal Justice Policy and Planning: Planned Change

Unlike other textbooks on the subject, Criminal Justice Policy and Planning: Planned Change, Fifth Edition, presents a comprehensive and structured account of the process of administering planned change in the criminal justice system. Welsh and Harris 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. The authors thoughtfully discuss the steps: analyzing a problem; setting goals and objectives; designing the program or policy; action planning; implementing and monitoring; evaluating outcomes; and reassessing and reviewing. Within these steps, 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 that 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. Examples include policies such as Restorative Justice, Justice Reinvestment, Stop-and-Frisk, and the Brady Act, and programs such as drug courts, community-based violence prevention, and halfway houses. 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.

Criminal Justice Policy and Planning

Politics & Social Sciences

WELSH, WAYNE N.

HARRIS, PHILIP W.

Social Sciences

Routledge

Unlike other textbooks on the subject, Criminal Justice Policy and Planning presents a comprehensive and structured account of the process of administering planned change in the criminal justice system. Welsh and Harris 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. The authors thoughtfully discuss the steps: analyzing a problem; setting goals and objectives; designing the program or policy; action planning; implementing and monitoring; evaluating outcomes; and reassessing and reviewing. Within these steps, 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 a meta-analysis. In reviewing these steps and procedures, students can develop a full appreciation for the challenges inherent in the process and understand the tools that 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. Examples include policies such as Restorative Justice, The Second Chance Act, Three Strikes Laws, and the Brady Act, and programs such as drug courts, boot camps, and halfway houses. By examining the successes and failures of these 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.
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<li>Chapters are enhanced with outlines, figures, tables, examples, discussion questions, and case studies.</li>
<li>Appendix includes a seven-stage checklist for program and policy planning.</li>
</ul>

Edwards, Bradley D.

Unlike other textbooks on the subject, Criminal Justice Policy and Planning presents a comprehensive and structured account of the process of administering planned change in the criminal justice system. Welsh and Harris 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. The authors thoughtfully discuss the steps: analyzing a problem; setting goals and objectives; designing the program or policy; action planning; implementing and monitoring; evaluating outcomes; and reassessing and reviewing. Within these steps, students and policy-makers 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 a meta-analysis, In reviewing these steps and procedures,&nbsp;readers can develop a full appreciation for the challenges inherent in the process and understand the tools required 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. Examples include policies such as Restorative Justice, The Second Chance Act, Three Strikes Laws, and the Brady Act, and programs such as drug courts, boot camps, and halfway houses. By examining the successes and failures of these 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.

Criminal Justice Policy and Planning, Fourth Edition, introduces students, practitioners, and policymakers to scientific techniques for analyzing criminal justice problems. It offers a systematic framework for analyzing and improving existing criminal justice interventions, and for planning new methods to maximize chances of success. The term "planned change” covers a wide range of criminal justice policies, programs, and projects that are developed, implemented, revised, abolished, and recreated each year. Poor planning and faulty problem analysis are the main reasons that so many criminal justice interventions fail to live up to expectations. The book begins by discussing the three general approaches to planned change (policy, program, and project) and presenting a seven-stage model for planned change. The remaining chapters cover the most critical and most overlooked stages of planning; setting goals and objectives for change; designing effective policies and programs; action planning, including budgeting and cost projections, and assigning responsibility for completion of specific implementation tasks; program/policy implementation and monitoring; outcome evaluation; and reassessment of programs.
<ul>
<li>Chapters are enhanced with outlines, figures, tables, examples, discussion questions, and case studies.</li>
<li>Appendix includes a seven-stage checklist for program and policy planning.</li>
</ul>

Criminal Justice Policy and Planning, Fourth Edition

Anderson

Acquaints readers with scientific techniques and a seven-stage framework for analyzing criminal justice problems and developing solutions. It explains the benefits of "planned change" using a variety of case studies to illustrate suitable planning techniques as well as the pitfalls that can be avoided by implementing such techniques.
<ul>
 <li>Chapters are enhanced with outlines, figures, tables, examples, discussion questions and case studies.</li>
 <li>Appendix includes a seven-stage checklist for program and policy planning.</li>
</ul>

Acquaints readers with scientific techniques and a seven-stage framework for analyzing criminal justice problems and developing solutions. It explains the benefits of "planned change" using a variety of case studies to illustrate suitable planning techniques as well as the pitfalls that can be avoided by implementing such techniques.
<ul>
<li>Chapters are enhanced with outlines, figures, tables, examples, discussion questions and case studies.</li>
<li>Appendix includes a seven-stage checklist for program and policy planning.</li>
</ul>

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