Criminal Justice

1. Read the following report from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention:

Promising Strategies to Reduce Gun Violence

Baltimore Comprehensive Communities Program- Baltimore, MD

Baltimore's Comprehensive Communities Program   ( http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/html/cd_rom/solution_gang_crime/pubs/PromisingStrategiestoReduceGunViolence.pdf )

2. Read the following report

    The University of Maryland, Center for Substance Abuse Research (CESAR) downloaded from  http://www.cesar.umd.edu/cesar/pubs/20010801.pdf

  3. Respond to the following questions:

1. A. Describe the positive aspects of the collaborative initiative
2. B. What partner do you feel is less essential to the initiative and why? (Note “None” is not an option.)
3. C. What criminal justice entity do you feel could have enhanced the success of the initiative?]
4. D. What NON-criminal justice entity do you feel could have enhanced the success of the initiative?

4. Complete Project 1 (Case Study) in the following format:

1. A minimum of three (3) full maximum to five (5) full pages of narrative text 
2. Respond to the four questions (a, b, c and d) in item 3 above
3. Support your work with a MINIMUM of two (2) resources other than the class instructional material. Narrative and Resource page citations must be done in the American Psychological Association (APA) format
4. A cover page (not included in the page count)
   1. Name of the student
   2. Name and number of the course
   3. Date of submission
   4. All other pages will be double-spaced, 1 inch margin, 12 font of  Times New Roman 
5. The Resource page APA Style (not included in the page count)