Every meaningful analysis of violent crime begins with victimology. How has investigative profiling been useful when analyzing crime scenes?
Criminal justice organizations must be able to grow and change to improve and to meet the needs of a changing society. Effective organizational management can help facilitate the change process. Managers in criminal justice have many responsibilities, including overseeing change management. The delicate balancing act of managing change in an organization requires effective communication to describe effective organizational management strategies. Once you can identify potential communication barriers and strategies to assess organizational change, you will be prepared to recommend evidence-based strategies for effective organizational change management.
Assessment Deliverable
Imagine you are a manager of an organization in the criminal justice system that is facing a major crisis and you have been tasked with developing effective strategies on how to address the needed changes.
Select a contemporary issue affecting one area of the criminal justice system. You may represent any kind of criminal justice organization that aligns with your career goals: law enforcement, courts, corrections, probation/parole, juveniles, etc. You will research the issue and report your findings to leaders from other departments and similar organizations.
Using effective organizational management strategies, write a 1,050- to 1,400-word report that drafts a plan for organizational change to share with other decision-making leaders. Describe to your fellow leaders how you plan to effectively implement the needed changes that address an issue in your organization. There is no specific format for the report as long as ideas are communicated clearly.
Your report should include the following information based on your research:
Identify the issue and why there is a need to implement organizational changes to your organization. Define a preferred change process strategy to deal with the issue.
Explain the handling of resistance to change. Identify key barriers to effective communication. Indicate the methods needed to improve communication regarding the needed changes.
Describe effective organizational management strategies that can be used to assess the changes after they are implemented. Explain how trust, conflict resolution, and negotiation influence the plan for organizational change.
Besides identifying negative influences in society, social psychology also provides the tools for analyzing positive influences in group interactions, as well. Consider here how the methods of social psychology can be applied to justice-impacted individuals to dissuade them from criminal behavior and rehabilitate them into society.
Imagine you are running a program for first-time offenders and introducing the program that you select to your agency.
Choose 1 of the rehabilitation techniques discussed this week:
Harm Reduction
Rehabilitation Programs
Anger Management
Substance Counseling
Offender Accountability Report Program
Horticultural therapy program
Structured Guidance
Create a 1-page handout and short presentation (5 minutes) about the rehabilitation technique. Use images that are copyright-free to bolster your information.
Address the following questions:
What is it?
How does it work?
What is the role of human service workers?
What are some risks?
What are the benefits of this technique vs. another?
What rehabilitation methods does your technique utilize?
How do those methods reduce the effects of prejudice, discrimination, and/ or aggression?
Identify a local program which exemplifies your technique and describe it.
Note: This assessment does not require APA formatting.
Write an essay on the Miami city police department, analyzing their geographic, crime statistics, and more.
Leadership Resume
Good leaders are respectful, confident, and strong communicators.
Even for non–leadership positions, employers want to hire people with leadership skills because good leaders tend to be good team players. They help influence those around them in a positive way, and inspire others to achieve great things.
ASSIGNMENT: Build a personal resume for a manager or a leadership position. Include, the following categories in your resume:
Name/Contact Information: Format Name and Information as heading.
Career Summary or Leadership Style: This section will consist of three or four lines of text that introduce you to your readers and highlight your strongest credentials. At the top of the page, just under your heading and contact information, create a summary that documents your ability to communicate, delegate, plan and manage complex projects. Or give a beginning paragraph about the importance of leadership or your particular style of leadership.
CAREER SUMMARY EXAMPLE:
Experienced military project manager with ability to guide project ideas from inception to goals and delivery. Create complex work plans, delegate tasks, and communicate progress to all stakeholders including executives. Experience at all levels of management.
Education and Training: List your educational credentials, including certifications, relevant affiliations, and professional development coursework. (This National University course could be included)
Experience/Skill: Outline experience you have had in any position of influence. Relevant details you may want to include are key industries, sizes of companies you’ve worked for, the largest team size you’ve led, and any projects you have managed.
Be sure to give a strategic impact, (you increased sales, the team record improved, you reduced cost). If you don’t have a lot of formal leadership, use an experience you had in college, at work, on a team, in a sports club, as a volunteer or the position you hold in your family. You can also list relevant work history.
References: List two (2) people who can speak to your ability to manage and/or lead.
The Nowheresville Police Department requests your assistance in the investigation of Joe Jacobs and the suspected solicitation and distribution of contraband. Our officers have obtained digital evidence provided on this USB flash drive presented to you. We respectfully request a report to be presented to the Department no later than December 10, 2022 to highlight the deliverable identified below.
⦁ A completed chain of custody form (soft copy preferable)
⦁ A completed single-evidence form (soft copy preferable)
⦁ A four full page report containing the following information:
⦁ A paragraph introducing the case and allegations involved in the case
⦁ A detailed description as to the processes and methodologies followed to obtain and search the presented electronic evidence.
⦁ A list of the files identified, deletion status, and md5 checksums for the case file image and each of the 3 main files obtained.
⦁ Answers to the following:
⦁ In addition to any of the findings above please provide an expert opinion and suggested course of action on the case.
⦁ Any lessons learned.
In exchange for your services, you will be rewarded with up to thirty percent of your semester payment as outlined in the course syllabus.
Instructions
Research Paper Instructions
Students will write a scholarly paper that is a minimum of 8-10 pages in length (8-10 pages excluding the title page, abstract, and reference page) in proper APA style format.
References may be found in the APUS library or search engines such as Google Scholar. The paper must include at least five, peer-reviewed sources that cover your chosen topic from the list below. Keep in mind that 5 is the minimum. A good quality research paper usually contains in excess of 10. Sources should be less than 10 years old and if using statistical data, it should be less than 5 years old. Do not forget to use in-text citations to credit your sources.
Note that references used for your research need to be peer-reviewed/scholarly journals. These journals typically have the following characteristics:
1. articles are reviewed by a panel of experts before they are accepted for publication;
2. articles are written by a scholar or specialist in the field;
3. articles report on original research or experimentation;
4. are often published by professional associations;
5. utilize terminology associated with the discipline.
The use of newspapers, news magazines, and similar periodicals must be kept to a minimum and will be acceptable only as sources for supplementary information.
References like “Wikipedia,” “Psychology Today,” and “Court TV” are not primary sources, are not peer-reviewed (reviewed for empirical integrity, accuracy, and authenticity), and are not appropriate references for scholarly writing (with the possible exception of use for anecdotal background information).
Research Paper Topics
Choose a topic relevant to criminal investigations. Examples include:
The paper should be of high quality, free of spelling and grammatical errors, and of original work. In addition, it needs to be in proper APA style format. Plagiarism will not be permitted and occurrences of it will result in the procedures outlined in the “Student Handbook.”
IMPORTANT NOTE: Once you have submitted the assignment it is automatically run through a plagiarism checker. Do NOT directly quote. Rather summarize and paraphrase completely in your own words and phrases while giving proper credit to where that information came from.
Exam Content
As a supervisor in criminal justice, you will need to be able to identify challenges to organizational structure and systems and propose evidence-based solutions to management. Strong written and verbal communication skills are necessary when interacting with every member of an organization. Supervisors must understand how challenges affect the organizational structure of the system. They must also be ready to communicate about such challenges before attempting to apply leadership philosophies and practices to make decisions about needed changes.
Scenario
Leadership has invited you to speak at an upcoming meeting to share your recommendations on mitigating challenges with the organization’s structure and systems. For this assignment, you will prepare the presentation that you would give at the meeting.
Preparation
Select an example of a criminal justice organization at the local, state, or federal level. You will use this organization’s structure as an example context for your presentation; you will not need to know the challenges facing the organization in real life.
Select 3 organizational challenges from the list below that this kind of organization might face. Cite at least 2 scholarly sources in your presentation in addition to the organization’s website.
Potential Organizational Challenges
Use any of the following examples of challenges facing managers of criminal justice organizations that could threaten the organization’s structure or systems:
People Challenges
Establishing consistent hiring and performance standards (screening out underqualified, unethical, or underperforming staff)
Building and maintaining diverse and inclusive teams and relationships
Reducing mistrust and turnover
Strengthening public confidence
Using staff and resources efficiently to handle cases more effectively
Addressing lack of integration and collaboration between departments, sectors, agencies, teams, etc.
Policy Challenges
Contingency planning: Recognizing predictable events and prioritizing decisions to make policies to prevent and handle them
Contingency planning: Developing teams to advise on unpredictable events and how to respond to them
Protecting civil liberties
Maintaining a safe, secure, and humane prison system
Countering terrorism and safeguarding national security
Coordinating law enforcement to handle increasing levels of violent crime and the opioid crisis
Addressing the overuse of specific strategies or use of a policy/program for overly short or lengthy durations
Training Challenges
Budgeting for and delivery of ongoing training (in-person and remotely)
Balancing training needs with staff coverage
Establishing clear succession and promotion plans based on performance
Protecting against cyberthreats and determining new responses to risks from emerging technologies
Supervision Challenges
Leading with compassion and confidence
Managing negativity and conflict
Improving morale or engagement
Discipline Challenges
Handling policy violations, reporting, and accountability
Making consistent leadership decisions about disciplinary issues
Using sensitive investigative authorities by department law enforcement
Ensuring financial accountability of department contracts and grants
Reducing delays or errors in the administration of justice
Assessment Deliverable
Create a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation as if you were a supervisor examining problems and proposing solutions within the organization. Your presentation should include the following information supported by evidence of challenges to the organization’s structure and systems:
Describe the selected criminal justice organization that is currently undergoing organizational challenges.
Summarize 3 organizational challenges the organization might experience. Discuss how these organizational challenges affect the structure and systems of the organization.
Explain how the organization has addressed cultural and gender challenges at the leadership level.
Apply a different philosophy or practice for effective organizational behavior leadership to each of the 3 challenges. Recommend a strategy for preventing or reducing each organizational challenge based on the philosophy or practice.
Instructions:
You are required to answer one of the following questions. Limit your response to 1300 words (no more). Points will be deducted for going over the word limit and for formatting. Note that this assignment is an individual assignment, so there must not be any discussion or collaboration between students. If you have any questions, please direct them to the instructor for a timely response.
Students should also refer to at least three sources that were not provided in the course reading, in order to provide a more robust response to the question. References made to open-source websites such as WIKIPEDIA, blogs or like resources will NOT be given credit, nor references to forums in the course, instructor presentations or other postings by students. In other words, these kinds of references are not to be used for this exam. Where applicable, be sure to use concrete examples in your answer.
Ensure that you provide appropriate references, including page numbers, to APA standards for material where ideas are referenced or short quotations are used.
Submit your paper in Word format to Moodle for marking. Also please ensure that your paper has been successfully uploaded as you are responsible for its submission before the due date.
Answer the following question.
1. Identify opportunities, highlighting both challenges and benefits, to incorporate more aspects of indigenous law into Canada’s legal system. You may bring some comparative examples to support your argument.
Assignment #1
In order to complete Assignment #1 you will need to answer the below questions. Complete the questions in a Word document and then upload the assignment for grading. When assigning a name to your document please use the following format (last name_Assignment #1). Use examples from the readings, lecture notes and outside research to support your answers. The assignment must be a minimum of 1-full page in length with a minimum of 2 outside sources. Be sure to follow APA guidelines for citing and referencing sources. Assignments are due by 11:59 pm Eastern Time on Sunday.
1. The term computer crime encompasses a very broad range of criminal acts. Explain in detail categories of computer crime. Use examples to support your explanations.
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