One of the goals of this course is to help you develop a specific type of professional writing: translating academic studies of criminal justice policies for a non-academic audience.
The audience for this policy memo is a senior local government official, who has executive authority to direct a law enforcement agency that is relevant to the subject at hand . The executive is familiar with institutional details, but has a legal or practitioner background.
What is the “big” problem this paper addresses?
What specific question does this paper seek to answer?
What data do the authors use? What do they do with the data?
What do the authors find?
How do the findings change our understanding of the “big” problem?
