[Solved] week2 criminal justice planning discussion

Assignment Prompt & Instructions

**Consider this scenario. You are head of a planning team that has been asked to create a new drug treatment program. You ask your team to write a goal statement for the program. The following goal statements have been proposed:** – **The goal of this drug treatment program is to serve clients’ needs and to educate clients about the harm that drugs cause.** – **The goal of this drug treatment program is to assist our clients in reducing drug dependency and eventually ending it toward living drug-free lives.** **Which goal statement do you think is more appropriate? Explain why you think the statement is suitable. Also provide an explanation as to why the other statement is not suitable.** **Do the four components mentioned in the book—a time frame, the targeted population, the anticipated result, and a criterion—suffice to create an objective statement? Why?** **Consider the following objective statement for checking recidivism to crime:** **“The program will prevent inmates from committing crime, as measured by arrest or revocation of parole, for at least three years after they have been released back into the community.”** **In the objective statement example above, consider that some new components are to be included toward creating a more appropriate objective statement. Recommend at least two additional components that can be included to create an objective statement and provide a rationale for your recommendations.**