Public Policy Criminal Just

Catalog description

This course is designed to increase the knowledge of the student about policy development in criminal justice. Of specific concern will be problem identification and the movement of an idea or issue into public policy, with special emphasis on the participants in the criminal justice policymaking process. Course content will include indicators of problems that cause concern in criminal justice and elevate that problem to such a level that public policymaking is required; strategic management of criminal justice policy; and the role of the criminal justice executive as an agent of change.