How Much Are Americans Spending for Corrections?Explain

Court Initiatives

Select one of the following Activities from Chapter 8 of Crime Prevention for your initial post.

Activity: Three Strikes
Activity: Drug Courts
Activity: Specialized Courts

Your initial post must be a minimum of 250 words in length. Support your post with examples from your required reading material and /or other scholarly sources, and provide in-text citation in APA style.

DISCUSSION 2:
Corrections Initiatives

Select one of the following Activities from Chapter 9 of Crime Prevention for your initial post.

Activity: How Much Are Americans Spending for Corrections?
Activity: Restorative Justice

DISCUSSION 3:
Journal Article Review: Corrections Crime Prevention Programs

During this course you will submit three journal article reviews from the Ashford Online Library. You can use this research in your Final Project, due in Week Five. The reviews will addresses crime prevention strategies through one of the following criminal justice system components:

Policing Crime Prevention Programs – policing, schools, community oriented policing (covered in Chapter 7 of Crime Prevention)
Court Crime Prevention Programs – the Courts or sentencing (covered in Chapter 8 of Crime Prevention)
Corrections Crime Prevention Programs – corrections, jails and prisons, boot camps, rehabilitation, or restoration (covered in Chapter 9 of Crime Prevention)

There are journal article reviews due in Weeks One, Three, and Four. For this week, select an article on a corrections crime prevention program. In this review, do the following:

Summarize the article. Which type of crime prevention strategy is being addressed?
Identify the key findings and recommendations.
Cite the article in APA format. Information on APA is available in the Ashford Writing center, located within the Learning Resources tab on the left navigation toolbar.

Your initial post must be a minimum of 250 words in length.