For assessment purposes you will select one of the topics described below. Once chosen, this topic will be the basis for all three assessment items. You cannot change topic once Assessment 1 has been submitted, so choose wisely and think ahead to how you will address Assessment 2 and 3. The topics are:

• Mental health courts

• Prisoner employment and re-entry

• Restorative justice conferencing

Based on the topic you choose you will then identify a criminal justice intervention related to this topic. Your task will then be to construct a project proposal where you will design an evaluation of this criminal justice intervention. Different components of this project proposal.

Students will be required to select a criminal justice intervention topic from a list of topics above.

Students will be required to write and submit a research proposal for an evaluation of the chosen criminal justice intervention topic. The research proposal will be submitted in three parts, all drawing on the same research evaluation and research questions.