The central issues in Program Evaluation in Practice

The central issues in Program Evaluation in Practice revolve around the different choices

a researcher can make when evaluating a program that can significantly influence the

results from that evaluation. Explain your choices in this scenario by addressing the

following questions.

Is it appropriate to provide treatment for some individuals in the criminal justice system

and not others? What if not much is known about the effect of treatment, and it could

very well make them worse and not better—does this change your answer? If so, why?

(LO 11).

Treatment of some individuals in the criminal justice system and leaving out the

others is not appropriate and should not be allowed. The reason is that the sole purpose

of the criminal justice system is to provide treatment to all individuals because they have

some problems. The failure of criminal justice to treat some individuals means that they

are not compatible with the specified program and should try another effective program.

The reason is that people have a range of issues that need different treatment, and it is the

work of the criminal justice system to determine the most effective treatment for them.

Additionally, they determine the duration at which the individual will receive the full

treatment. Therefore, when some individuals do not respond to the treatment programs, it

means that the criminal justice system missed something and should rectify it. It explains

why some individuals may be taken to more than five prisons for a long time, and then

they go to other prisons and come up with reformed individuals. Therefore, when an

individual is not responding to a treatment, it means that they are not in the right

treatment program and should be changed to get better (Andrews & Bonta, 2010).

2. Imagine you are a program administrator and are approached with