Evaluate the efficacy of correctional policies based on theories of punishment and incarceration. Your assignment should:

• Identify three correctional policies (examples include but are not limited to, forms of community-based corrections, the death penalty, determinant sentencing practices, treatments programs and many others)

• Clearly describe at least three theories of punishment and incarceration on which these policies are based. Be sure to cite the theories.

• Analyze correctional policies and three theories of punishment and incarceration. Which of the theories best describe or support each of the policies?

• Determine each policy’s effectiveness

The suggested keywords below can be tried on the Find page of this guide or in the Library database ProQuest. 

• correctional policy "theories of punishment"
• theories of punishment and incarceration
• theories of criminal punishment

Using quotation marks tell the database to look for the words close together narrows the search.