PUAF 734: Foundations of Social Policy
This course is designed to
provide students with an understanding of: (1) demographic changes, their
sources and policy impacts; (2) the sources and uses of data in social policy;
(3) the evolution of social policy toward the poor in the United States and
the structure of programs and responsibilities among levels of government;
(4) the differences between social policies in the US and other wealthy nations;
and; (5) policies to help particularly vulnerable populations. It involves
explicit analysis of economic, political and normative aspects of social policy.
The course is intended to develop student skills in integrated policy analysis
and oral presentation, particularly the presentation of quantitative data
CCJS
699V: Regulating Vice and Regulating Organized Crime
For this course, vice is defined as a habit with bad consequences that can generate large black markets if the market for supplying that habit is prohibited or heavily regulated. Vice is found in all modern societies, though in widely differing forms, depending on population characteristics, culture and law. Society’s decision is how to regulate it, whether criminally or otherwise, and how then to assess whether the regulation is successful. This assessment has multiple components, including; choosing outcome measures; modeling counterfactuals for which the evidence is often very indirect and developing a framework for ensuring that comparisons reflect all relevant outcomes and values.
CCJS 720: Criminal Justice System Planning: Policy Analysis for Crime Control
System theory and method; examination of planning methods and models based primarily on a systems approach to the operations of the criminal justice system.