SOCI 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Crime Prevention, Dangerous Offender, Neighborhood Watch

: (also called social policies) those standing directives, formulated by public organizations on behalf of the public good. Analysts of public policy observed that policies undergo 5 stages in their development: 1: agenda setting or the prioritization of problems, policy formation, program implementation and reassessment, program evaluation and reassessment. The government seeks to promote policies that can contribute to the common good without resulting in political disruption. Criminality is decided as much by legal and political authorities, and by their strategies of criminalization, enforcement, and control, as by criminals themselves. Policy response to crime has 2 prongs: one defines crime as an issue of individual responsibility. This is known as the social responsibility perspective : the other sees crime and criminal behavior as resulting from poor social conditions and dysfunctional social structures. This is known as the social problems perspective .