CCJ-4497 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Summative Assessment, Sensitivity Analysis, Needs Assessment
28 Apr 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Silver bullet solutions: silver bullet means something that will very easily and quickly solve a serious problem. Size, location, trends, cause of problems: when you define a social problem you consider these. Causal relationships: linear / & nonlinear ~ Defining crime: you must look at crime and the criminal justice system. The ultimate changes thought to result from the outputs and/or the short-term or immediate-term outcomes. Outputs: the actions, products, or services that define the policy. What a policy theory evaluation consists of: it consists of helping to explain how some specific policy-related activities or services are expected to cause some intended outcome. Its main task is to describe nature and character of the policy, including its essential activities and how these activities should lead to come outcome. Conditioning factors: characteristics of the policy environment the policy (or target groups or areas) that directly, indirectly, or in interaction with other factors, affect activities, outputs or outcomes.
