you worked on analyzing how criminological theories inform public policy. Now you will be providing guidance on how theories may be used to improve existing policy by analyzing complex relationships between public policy and social control relating to property crimes. The guidance you formulate will help the mayor recommend policy updates to the police chief. To complete this task, you will also need to explore the shortcomings of the current policy, how the police department can develop innovative approaches, potential issues with implementing a new policy, and how institutional social control can collaborate with public social control.
Directions
Create another memo to the mayor explaining how and why theories may be used to inform policies, the benefits of those policies, and why theory may explain where the existing policy is failing. Identify the possible barriers that may impede the implementation of this new approach. Be sure to explain how innovative approaches can include resources outside the department, such as schools, businesses, and social services, to implement a system relying on institutional social control and public social control.
Explain how the theories identified in Project Two may enhance the capacity of the police department to understand the following:
The nature of the ongoing crime problem
The importance of developing innovative policies to curtail the possibility of the problem recurring
Discuss why the current policy has failed to reduce the property crimes in the city.
Explain how the police department can use innovative approaches to address the issue. Support your explanation with scholarly evidence.
Discuss community policing, foot patrol, bike patrols, neighborhood meetings, and so forth.
Explain whether a new policy based on the police departments innovative approaches may effectively combat the issue of property crimes in Greenville.
Explain how to mitigate potential barriers that may hinder the implementation of this new policy.
Use the theories identified and crime data identified to provide a rationale.
Explain how institutional social control (i.e., schools, businesses, stores, social services) may collaborate with public social control. (i.e., police) to combat the increase of property crimes.