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350 word comparative analysis of the evolution of criminal justice policy over the last 50 years for corrections and identify the various opportunities for cooperation between elements of the criminal justice system in the implementation of criminal justice policy?

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This solution of 351 words discusses policy analysis in the evolution of criminal justice.

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Criminal justice policy has changed dramatically over the last 50 years with the primary changes occurring 40 years ago during the Nixon administration and its focus on a "war on drugs". This asinine and wayward war has resulted in the greatest changes in prisons and criminal justice policy as today most offenses that are processed throughout the criminal justice system are for drugs. The war on drugs and the criminal justice policy emanating to address this policy has been the most disastrous policy in the history of criminal ...

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