Problem:
Submit a one or two sentence proposal for your paper topic. The topic must select a particular criminal justice policy, practice, or institution. (Policies are the laws, regulations, and procedures set up to guide actions toward a certain goal, in this case, reducing crime.) The paper must examine the empirical data on the effectiveness of that policy, practice, or institution. That means you will need to make sure you can find scholarly research articles that assess the effectiveness of the topic you select, that is, does it work? Examples of topics: stop and frisk, drug courts, body-worn cameras, sex offender registries, hot-spot policing, school resource officers, legalization of cannabis, mandatory arrest for domestic violence, prisoner reentry programs.