Select three audiences from the list provided. Then explain how you would convey the message “Don’t do drugs” to each of the audiences. Be specific and provide examples. Finally, explain how your delivery of the message would vary between and among the audiences to be most effective. Provide a rationale for your different approaches.

• Children
• Juveniles (under the age of 18)
• People with Mental Illness
• Ethnic/Racial minorities
• Persons living in poverty
• Criminals
• Immigrants
• Non-English-speaking citizens
• People with Intellectual Disabilities
• Deaf Community
• Elderly
• Pregnant Women

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources.

Readings

• Johnson, W. A., Rettig, R. P., Scott, G. M., & Garrison, S. M. (2015). The criminal justice student writer’s manual (6th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
  • pp. 29–30
• Lamb, H. R., Weinberger, L. E., & Gross, B. H. (2004). Mentally ill persons in the criminal justice system: Some perspectives. Psychiatric Quarterly, 75(2), 107–126.
  

• Identify and write for your audience. Federal Plain Language Guidelines. Retrieved from http://www.plainlanguage.gov/howto/guidelines/bigdoc/audId.cfm
• Anonymous (2004). Nothing lost in the translation: Overcoming barriers to communications due to language limitations. Corrections Forum, 13(2), 96.

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Don’t Do Drugs” to Different Audiences

The statement, “Don’t do drugs” is a statement that can harry different varieties of impact on different audiences. First, in the case of children, it can help a lot to prevent the use of explicit language as one would use with a group of criminals. Children are prone to understand a calm, soft voice that says to them, “Drugs are not good for anybody…