Criminal Justice
Title: Writer’s choice
Project 1: Case Study
You are working in the research unit of a foundation that awards grants to criminal justice agencies. The foundation is interested in promoting inter-agency collaboration to address specific issues in criminal justice. There is a formal debate in the office as to whether a particular case of apparent cooperation/collaboration was actually effective. Your supervisor is championing one side of this discussion. You have been asked to provide a review of the case identified below. Specifically, your supervisor asked you to compose a paper that included responses to the four questions provided. (See Item #3 below.)
1. Read the following report from the National Institute of Justice:
“Baltimore’s Comprehensive Communities Program: A Case Study”
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/204627.pdf
2. Respond to the following questions:
Describe the positive aspects of the collaborative initiative
1. What partner do you feel is less essential to the initiative and why? (Note “None” is not an option.)
2. What criminal justice entity do you feel could have enhanced the success of the initiative?]
3. What NON-criminal justice entity do you feel could have enhanced the success of the initiative?
Note: While these four questions may be helpful in creating an outline, the paper itself must be presented as a formal narrative case study.
3. Complete Project 1 (Case Study) in the following format:
Respond to the four questions in item 2 above
Format Requirements
Paper must be double spaced, 11 or 12 pt font and 1” margins all around.
All APA 7th edition format requirements must be followed (cover page, in text citations, reference page). Refer to APA/UMGC – learning resources found in the content page of this course.
You must have resources to support your thoughts/opinions/information. These must be cited both in text as well as at the end of the document. Your paper should not contain direct quotes, sourced material must be paraphrased.
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Inter-Agency Collaboration in Baltimore’s Comprehensive Communities Program: A Case Study
Inter-agency collaboration entails the process of different agencies joining their taskforces to work together interdependently to solve a certain problem. Inter-agency collaboration creates positive aspects and these aspects are clear from Baltimore’s Comprehensive Communities Program. One of the positive aspects of inter-agency collaboration is that it brings different multiple services together (Roth, Kelling, BOTEC Analysis Corporation & United States of America, 2004). Multiple services working together create effectiveness in the process of problem-solving. Another positive aspect of inter-agency collaboration is that it reduces duplication of the services the agencies offer and, in the process facilitating the agencies use the public resources effectively.
The partner agency that I find less effective in the initiative is the Community Building Partnership in Stark County. The Community Building Partnership agency commits to restoring health and prosperity. The reason why I find the Community Building Partnership less effective in the initiative is because it mainly focuses on the welfare of Stark County (Roth, Kelling, BOTEC Analysis Corporation & United States of America, 2004). Community Building Partnership can be more effective if it focuses equally on the neighboring counties as it does in Stark County. Another reason why I consider the Community Building Partnership agency less effective is that there are other federal agencies addressing health welfare largely such as the CDC organization.
The criminal justice entity that I feel could have played a significant role in the success of the initiative is the correctional entity. The correctional entity is the most crucial in the three criminal justice systems since it handles offenders. The correctional entity can play a significant role in the initiative by providing a strategy that will reunite an offender with the society at large. The correctional entity can achieve this strategy of reuniting the offender with the society through offering mass education to the society on how to treat the offender.
A non-criminal justice entity that I believe could have made a significant impact on the initiative is the mass media. The mass media plays a significant role when it comes to communication and it is impactful to society. The initiative can use the mass media channels in creating awareness concerning the objectives of the initiatives and the role of the society in the initiative. Therefore, both the mass media and correctional entities can increase the effectiveness of the initiative.
References
Roth, J. A., Kelling, G. L., BOTEC Analysis Corporation, & United States of America. (2004). Baltimore’s Comprehensive Communities Program: A Case Study. Report prepared for National Institute of Justice. NCJRS document, 204627.
