Justice Reinvestment Program Approaches
What is the Purpose? The purpose of this assignment is for you to think about the effectiveness of “get tough” approaches, learn about a different approach (justice reinvestment), assess the effectiveness of one program using this approach, and reflect on the implications of this for juvenile justice.
What do you need to do?• To complete this assignment, you need to read the following: Labrecque, Ryan M., Myrinda
Schweitzer, and Kelsey L. Mattick. 2018. “A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of a Juvenile Justice Reinvestment Initiative.” Journal of Criminal Justice 41(1): 49-61. You can find the reading in Course materials under “Weeks 11-16” in the “Chapter Summaries and Additional Readings” folder.
• You then need to answer the following questions about the reading:
1. Reflect on the “get tough” strategies by answering the follow: (pp. 50-51)
1. What are TWO problems with the use of “get tough” strategies such as prisons?
2. What effects do these have on recidivism (reoffending)?
2. What is justice reinvestment (p. 51) and how is Targeted RECLAIM in Ohio an example of justice reinvestment (p. 52)?
3. In terms of the research methods:
1. What are the TWO groups that are being compared? (p. 53)
2. Give brief examples of TWO types of programs that were part of Targeted
RECLAIM? (pp. 53-54)
3. What is the outcome that the researchers are focusing on? (pp. 54-55)
4. Reflect on the overall findings in this study by answering the following:
1. What is the overall big result comparing the two groups of youth? (p. 57)
2. How did the effectiveness of Targeted RECLAIM vary by the risk level of the youth? (pp. 57-58) Just bring out two main points here. You do not need to cover all the details.5. Reflect on this reading and answer
If you were hired by New York State to help improve juvenile justice outcomes, what are some of the things that you would recommend?
• Summarizing and Quoting: In preparing your write-up, you can use some targeted short quotes. If you do so, please cite the page number. What I would really like to see you do is summarize the main ideas in many of your own words. This helps to demonstrate your level of understanding of the material. Please check any summaries against the original text. If the words are too close, it is considered plagiarism. If you want/need to use the exact words, you must quote and provide the page number.
• Answering: I have set-up the assignment into 5 short answer essay boxes for you to address each question individually. I recommend that you write your answer in a text file and then copy and paste the answer to each question into the appropriate answer box.
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