This course will explore program and policy analysis techniques related to the philosophical and practical administration of criminal justice. The course will explore how policy in the criminal justice system is created, analyzed and changed. The student will analyze critical issues in criminal justice policy making at all levels of government. The student will also examine effective and ineffective policies and strategies currently administered in the criminal justice system.
Any minister, lay leader, or mission minded believer engaging persons within criminal justice system as well as active community members will inevitably be asked or ask themselves questions related to criminal justice policy. Those within the criminal justice profession seeking to live out a missional calling through their work would benefit from a structured and guided engagement of criminal justice program policy evaluation and analysis. Due to the current state, members of the community would benefit a better understanding of the criminal justice program policies. By understanding criminal justice programs, students will learn how to evaluate and analyze and the policies implemented.
The entire Criminal Justice system is a “hot topic.” The pillars of accountability and understanding flow largely out of religious thought and tradition. Secular institutions in the criminal justice system are continually wrestling with hot topic issues and relations with the public, and they are actually wrestling with ideas that have long been explored in the Christian faith. It would benefit the larger mission of God for mission-minded individuals with training in program policy evaluation and analysis. Through the evaluation and analysis of program policy, implementation and changes can be made to create effective programing. There is a continuous need for an understanding of program policies.
Criminal justice program policies abound, but not all have a biblical basis. This course could help develop biblically-educated program policy makers within their field and community.
If criminal justice practitioners desire to live out their missional calling in the criminal justice field, they will desire to guide and shape their colleagues and institutions to understand criminal justice program policy evaluation and analysis and implementation of meaningful policies.
The criminal justice field is a unique ministry context, and a course on criminal justice program policy evaluation and analysis would help practitioners and the community as a whole apply broader biblical principles to specific criminal justice issues.
A large part of criminal justice policies focus on the issues of culture and equity. Criminal justice values can change among differing cultures. Understanding how policies impact issues of culture and equity allows for the creation of effective program policies.
Criminal Justice program policies provide meaningful understanding to current trends implementation of policy based on these trends. It is very practical.
Criminal Justice Program Policy evaluation and analysis is best learned through examination. Learners would bring their cases to the table for analysis and learning and return to their practice with the benefit of that learning.
