Chapter Questions
What do you believe are the primary problems in criminal justice policy today?
How can evaluation research improve criminal justice policies?
How would you increase the use of evaluation research in the development, implementation, monitoring, and assessment of criminal justice policy?
How would you organize the development and funding of criminal justice policy so that it was more effective and efficient?
What specific steps for increasing the amount and quality of criminal justice evaluation research do you think would produce the largest improvements in research and in policy?
Some people argue that criminal justice policy frequently is motivated purely by political considerations, while others argue that political influences on policy is a good thing. What do you think? What role should politics play in criminal justice policy? What limits should there be on its influence?