The purpose of this assignment is to compare and contrast the current dominant approaches to crime prevention. Through this assignment, you will examine approaches used by the three components of the criminal justice system, i.e., law enforcement, courts, and corrections, for the prevention of crime. This assignment will require you to use at least five sources outside the textbook, which may include academic papers, journal articles, or books available from the Kaplan online library, or from another source. You may include only one web site as a source.

In a minimum of 3 pages of written text (not including the cover page and reference page), you will provide the following: 

• Identify the dominant approaches to crime prevention currently used by law enforcement, courts, and corrections 
• Compare the dominant approaches used for crime prevention 
• Contrast the dominant approaches used for crime prevention 
• Analyze which approaches are most effective•Include an introductory and concluding paragraph and demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard American English 
• Use double-space and Arial or Times New Roman in 12 point font size 
• Use examples to support your discussion 
• Cite all sources on a separate reference page at the end of your paper, and cited within the body of your paper using APA format