College's Response
College's Response
Paper details:
Respond to colleagues in any of the following ways:
• Support or challenge your colleagues’ reasoning for their selection of theoretical frameworks. How
appropriate are they for both their Dissertation topic and problem statement, and for the field of public policy and
administration?
• If possible, offer another theoretical framework that might be equally or more suitable in public policy and
administration.
Collegue's Posting:
The main focus of the proposed dissertation is the gap between the criminal justice system, reformation and Life
Skills programs in the State of Delaware. The problem of recidivism was chosen for several important reasons
most of which have a much to do with the demise of the whole topic of communities, family relationships, and the
future of a City that was once the epicenter of the State. The purpose of reevaluating the reform programs offered
through the criminal justice system, notforprofits and forprofits are the statistics of men between the ages of 20
thru 35 who completed reform and LifeSkills training programs only to be rearrested within 2 to 3 years for new
crimes or returned to prison for probation violations. The study will be multipart, as a general rule conducted to
produce a variety of perspectives that can support the investigation. The theoretical framework to decipher the
grouped and related ideas guides a research project or business endeavor. (businessdictionary.com)
Researchers have conducted extensive research on the topic of communitybased custody, probation, and
parole. The platform objectives based on the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and
Goals (1973:311). (pg. 61) The unanswered question and revelation the direction of money stream. While time is
limited to conduct the research, the scope of the relevant data will be explained in a theoretical framework
targeting two populations from a Social Construction and Ecological theory. The framework focuses on specific
variables and defines the specific viewpoints of several researchers, Joan Petersilia, and the findings of Spohn et
al. (2001) are among the several active social behaviorists that conducted research verified by a lot of empirical
studies. Prior research demonstrates a combination of rehabilitation/therapy, employment, and support
supervision of the court were effective in reducing rates of recidivism. However, the missing elements of the
predicted study will attempt to reveal the gaps based on the works of the Ecological Theory. Following Spohn et
al. (pg. 3) and the findings of Schneider, Ingram, and Deleon, the second theoretical framework relevant to the
study the Social Construction of target populations.
Social Construction and Ecological theories target populations. The conceptual framework for the study
designed under these capacities will emphasize the CPR situation to recognize the last three decades of the
political world and the social construction described by Edelman 1964, 1988; Luke 1989. The procedure the study
will conceptualize are the guides of policy, debates and discourses contingent on interpretation and the
assignment of values to people, processes, and events (Stone 1997; Fisher 2003; Sabatier, Weible, (2014 pg.
106)). The 2007 ideologies of Chhokar, House, and Brodbeck, will identify new ideas and conceptual frameworks
for leadership models. (pg. 29) Shafritz, Ott, Jang, lends a 2012 update that applies to the study because it
pertains to the changing perspectives on institutional logics and their influence on the transformation of
institutional theory. (pg. 31). According to Ostrom, the commonpool resource CPR Situation refers to a specific
resource system that excludes potential beneficiaries from obtaining benefits from its use. Both frameworks will
be productive in creating a proposed study on the disjointed criminal justice system, reform, and LifeSkills
programs offered through the State of Delaware. In summary, the Social Construction framework will provide the
impact to develop an evaluation that the CPR situation can provide, the required answers and ascertain the
structure of the resource system, the byproducts/programs from an interdependent and collective action.

