Crime prediction strategies for the future
Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Refer to the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric under the Settings icon above for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.
Crime Prediction Strategies for the Future |
Select one of the following goals from Chapter 12, Table 12.1 on of The Prevention of Crime for your initial post.
Table: Recommendations for increasing the use and rigor of evaluation methods in crime prevention.
Goal |
Recommendation |
Reducing differences in lists of “What works” |
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Increasing the number of effective interventions |
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Examine the future of crime prediction using the recommendations listed beside your chosen goal and incorporate the following:
- Based on your earlier research and readings, evaluate current prevention programs and how they might be changed in the future based on these goals.
- Analyze the impact of diversity in future crime prediction strategies, especially within law enforcement agencies that have little credibility with their communities today.
- Assess whether your chosen goal positively or negatively impacts social justice for all groups or just targeted segments of society.
Your initial post must be a minimum of 300 words. Support your post with examples from your required reading material and/or other credible and scholarly sources, using the Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.)document for guidance. Provide in-text citations in APA style (Links to an external site.), as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).