Criminal Justice Policy and Planning, Fourth Edition. This item is unavailable.Criminal Justice Policy and Planning, Fourth Edition

Criminal Justice Policy and Planning, Fourth Edition, introduces students, practitioners, and policymakers to scientific techniques for analyzing criminal justice problems. It offers a systematic framework for analyzing and improving existing criminal justice interventions, and for planning new methods to maximize chances of success.
The term "planned change” covers a wide range of criminal justice policies, programs, and projects that are developed, implemented, revised, abolished, and recreated each year. Poor planning and faulty problem analysis are the main reasons that so many criminal justice interventions fail to live up to expectations. The book begins by discussing the three general approaches to planned change (policy, program, and project) and presenting a seven-stage model for planned change. The remaining chapters cover the most critical and most overlooked stages of planning; setting goals and objectives for change; designing effective policies and programs; action planning, including budgeting and cost projections, and assigning responsibility for completion of specific implementation tasks; program/policy implementation and monitoring; outcome evaluation; and reassessment of programs.

• Chapters are enhanced with outlines, figures, tables, examples, discussion questions, and case studies.
• Appendix includes a seven-stage checklist for program and policy planning.

Wayne N. Welsh is a Professor of Criminal Justice at Temple University. He has conducted research in two broad areas: (1) applications of organizational theory to criminal justice and examinations of organizational change, and (2) theories of violent behavior and intervention/prevention programs. Welsh has been Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on numerous federal and state-funded research grants, and is currently working on a a national collaborative research project, project on Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Systems.

Philip W. Harris is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University. His teaching and research have focused primarily on the areas of juvenile justice, juvenile correctional strategies, and organizational and system development. He serves as the strategic planning adviser to the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators, which he co-founded in 1994, and is a member of Pennsylvania's Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Committee.