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DRUG ABUSE and JUVENILE CRIME (topic) Building on the discussion of criminal justice policy-makers in Module Six, for this assignment due in Module Seven, you will write a brief, 1-page  memorandum to your supervisor regarding the need to make changes to a departmental policy in your criminal justice agency. You will also describe how these  changes will affect the different actors involved in the policy-making process. This memorandum will help inform policy recommendations that you will be  making in your Milestone Three assignment and in your final project, because you will be outlining changes to a departmental policy based on the public policy  issue you have previously identified.

1. Identify an example of a departmental policy effort to address a public policy issue.
2. Focus your explanation on the potential difference between perceptions of criminality, the public policy issues related to these perceptions, and the reality of the challenges many political actors face in addressing these issues.
3. Discuss the overall impact on the public that exists having so many actors involved in the same criminal justice arena—all of whom are trying to create policy to address the same public policy issue.