Case Study : Instructions

You are working in the research unit of a foundation that awards grants to criminal justice agencies. The foundation is interested in promoting inter-agency collaboration to address specific issues in criminal justice.

As part of the announcement of the availability of grant funds for this initiative you have been asked to provide a review of a recent (within the past 10 years) case depicting inter-agency collaboration and cooperation as factors in a criminal justice-related case outcome.

Your supervisor has outlined your work assignment as follows:

Search for a criminal justice website that is a repository for scholarly research to include case studies about collaborative efforts to resolve crime issues in a community.

Website examples include (but not limited to):

Collaborative Justice

The Center for Effective Public Policy

National Institute of Corrections

Crime Solutions

Center for Court Innovation

Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy

Find a detailed overview of a case study that utilized collaborative community and criminal

justice resources to deal with a crime issue in that community.

3. Respond to the following questions:

Describe the collaborative initiative- location, date, what are the issues, who was involved with the solution?

What solutions were proposed? Be detailed-

What were the results? Be detailed-

What partner do you feel was most impactful to the solution?

What partner do you feel was least impactful to the solution?

How could the outcome of the collaboration been improved?

Note, while these questions will be helpful is developing a project paper outline, the paper itself should be presented as a narrative.

4. Complete Case Study 2 in the following format:

A minimum of three (3) full maximum five (5) full pages of narrative text

Respond to the six questions in item 3 above

Narrative and Resource page citations must be done in the American Psychological Association (APA) format (resource will be the case study you find)