PAD 445 Scope of the Problem

Scope of the Problem • Describes the relevance of the issue studied including its development over time and the criminal justice management context. More importantly, in order to perform policy analysis, one must define the policy issue, as well as specify the root causes of the issue. The root causes include economic/market failure, legal/policy failure, governance/administrative failure, or social failure. • Provide short-term or long-term forecasts to illustrate the growth of the problem. This can be achieved by providing some statistics as well as graphs or charts to give a visual presentation of the scope of the issue.