7-1 Policy Analysis Memorandum: Compromise and Avoiding Conflict: Policy-Making Does Not Occur in a Vacuum
CJ 520 Module Seven Policy Analysis Memorandum Guidelines and Rubric
Overview: Building on the discussion of criminal justice policy-makers in Module Six, for this assignment due in Module Seven, you will write a brief, 1-page memorandum to your supervisor regarding the need to make changes to a departmental policy in your criminal justice agency. You will also describe how these changes will affect the different actors involved in the policy-making process. This memorandum will help inform policy recommendations that you will be making in your Milestone Three assignment and in your final project, because you will be outlining changes to a departmental policy based on the public policy issue you have previously identified. Which is Race, National Origin and Ethnicity
Consider the following scenario: Your supervisor needs to be convinced of the need to make changes to a departmental policy in your agency and how these changes will affect the different actors involved in the policy-making process.
Prompt: Use the Memorandum Template to complete the assignment. In your brief, 1-page memorandum, address the following critical elements as they are reflected in the Sample Policy Memorandum. These critical elements appear as headings in that document as follows:
1. Issue Presented: In a brief one-sentence question, summarize the importance of making changes to your selected departmental policy in your criminal justice agency and how these changes will affect the different actors involved in the policy-making process.
2. Short Answer: Provide a short answer that summarizes the conclusion of the memorandum. 3. Statement of Facts: Describe how implementing these departmental policy changes will result in more effective policy-making.
4. Discussion: Briefly discuss at least one recent example of a departmental policy (from law enforcement, the courts, or corrections) that has effectively been revised to take into consideration the various policy actors involved.
5. Conclusion: Provide a conclusion based on the research you have done and the details you have gathered.
6. Recommendations:
a) Explain how the changes you are recommending to your departmental policy will affect other policy actors, including those in the other branches of the criminal justice system.
b) Identify resistance to the recommended changes from other policy actors who may find the changes lead to potential conflicts with their own policies or agendas.
c) In making your recommendations, include elements to your policy that, although not ideal for your department, will avoid conflicts with other policy actors and make a smoother delivery of criminal justice services in relation to the issue.
Reference your textbook or other course readings to support your submission.
For assistance in writing this memorandum, please review the Sample Policy Memorandum as well as the optional article Policy Memo Writing Tips.
The policy I selection is Race, National Origin and Ethnicity
To successfully complete this assignment, view the Module Seven Policy Analysis Memorandum Guidelines and Rubric document.
You will need the following resources to complete this task:
Memorandum Template
Sample Policy Memorandum
Policy Memo Writing Tips (Optional)
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MEMORANDUM
TO: Supervisor
FROM: Student’s Name
RE: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System
DATE: May 21, 2018
Issue Presented
Changes to the departmental policy which will focus on racial and ethnic disparities will be significant since it will help lower the number of inmates in prisons and the changes will highly have an impact on the non-violent inmates who are either African-Americans or are Hispanic Americans.
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