Personal Perception Paper
Amanda Jones
CJA/385
Nick Watt
July 7, 2016

Personal Perception Paper When it comes to criminal justice policies, there is a moral and ethical obligation involved in the policy making process. When it comes to policy making, there are various levels this takes place on, and affects all walks of society in trying to prevent and reduce the amount of crime that takes place. It is the responsibility of policy makers to make smart and sound choices as well as ethical ones all the while, analyzing the issues that need the most addressing. In this paper we will discuss the different perceptions that take place in the policy making process. The policy making process consists of the proposal of specific criteria for the prevention and reduction of crime in today’s society. When beliefs, ideologies and interests meet, policy making can take places and a political power can be assigned. This process takes places in steps. Policy analysis is when there is an evaluation of the different implications of each policy and the individual policies alone. In the criminal justice field, policy making requires specific areas to be covered such as legislative drafting, legislative enactment, agenda setting, public hearings, legislative implementation and legislative reauthorization. While in our reading, the definitions are similar, they state that policy making is an unbiased process and while in theory this could be true, it is not in practice. There is often a lot of skepticism and doubt during the process and it is questioned whether the process is considered fair. When it comes to policy making personal perception is that it is a process in which there is an abundance of influence by dominant interest groups (Grossmann, M. 2012). While the final product can be perceived as a positive, it may not be positive for criminal justice. There are several