CRJU 20423 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: Moral Panic, Junk Science, Mothers Against Drunk Driving
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Critical issues in crime and justice by maguire & okada chapter 20: public policy. Public policy: the formal version: public policy is what the government chooses to do or not do do. These actions or inactions are based on the social contract, that is, society expects from government. Changes in the social contract occur due to reasons such as emerging problems, principles held by new policy makers, or program evaluation results: public policy can be defined as purposive governmental courses of action or inaction. A critical influence is whether or not the problem is perceived as fitting the policy maker"s agenda, in which case a public policy may be developed to resolve the problem. Welsh and harris separate the policy-making process into three components: defining and examining the problem, developing goals and objectives, and creating the policy: the first step in developing public policy is to define and examine the problem.
