OVERVIEW OF GROUP PRESENTATION: SOCIOLOGICAL POLICY ANALYSIS
This overview is a guide to help you understand the purpose of the group research
project. You should use this overview as a template for your own project. Although the
headings in your outline do not need to correspond exactly to the headings in this
overview, your presentations should include all of the information presented below. The expectation is that each person will contribute 5 slides to the overall presentation, and each students work will be integrated into a smooth flowing whole.
BACKGROUND AND HISTORY OF POLICY (10 points)
??When instituted? By whom? ??Defining features?
POLITICAL/SOCIAL/HISTORICAL CONTEXT (10 points)
??What was going on in the U.S. at this time?
??Which political party was in power?
??What was mood of country regarding drugs/alcohol?
GOALS & BASIS OF POLICY (5 points)
??What was policy intended to do? Reduce drug use? Deter potential offenders? Be
tougher on drug crime? Save lives?
??On what, if any, empirical evidence was the creation of this policy based?
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE & SUPPORT (15 points)
??What does the evaluation research on this policy reveal?
o Effectiveness?
o Consequences (intentional or unintentional)?
??How does this policy affect different groups in society? Disparate impact in terms of
race, gender, age?
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