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.

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Power Point Presentation With Speaker Notes

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.

Formatting Requirements

Download and review the Presentation Template. This example has been customized to reflect your summative assessment presentation components and will help you get a better idea of how to organize your presentation so you can focus on the slide content. Inputting your content into this presentation template is optional; you can use presentation software and design layouts of your choice to customize your presentation’s appearance (i.e., color, images, and font). However, ensure you have faculty member approval in advance to use other software.

 

Whether you use the presentation template example or another template of your choice, include the following slides and topics in your presentation:

Title
Introduction/Organization undergoing organizational challenges
Organizational challenges
Effects of challenge #1 on organizational structure and systems
Effects of challenge #2 on organizational structure and systems
Effects of challenge #3 on organizational structure and systems
Cultural and gender challenges addressed by leadership
Leadership philosophy and strategy for addressing organizational challenge #1
Leadership philosophy and strategy for addressing organizational challenge #2
Leadership philosophy and strategy for addressing organizational challenge #3
Conclusion/References
Presentation recording link (if recording using video software)

Format citations and references for any sources and images according to APA guidelines. Include citations either within the slide’s content or in the speaker notes on the slide where they are mentioned. Use the references slide to list your references. Cite at least 2 scholarly sources.

 

Record yourself delivering the presentation either by:

Recording narrations within the presentation slides without appearing on screen: If you record narrations for each slide within the presentation software, such as Microsoft PowerPoint, you do not need to record a video.
Recording a video or screencast of yourself delivering the presentation: If you record a video of yourself delivering the presentation, either by appearing on screen or by recording a voiceover, paste the link to your completed video on the presentation recording link slide at the end of your presentation.

For either format, ensure that slides are visible and your voice is heard clearly. Contact your faculty member for alternate deliverable formats if you need accommodations.

 

Submit your assessment.

Explain the role of ethics and integrity in the criminal justice profession, and the higher standard expected of criminal justice professionals. Write clearly and concisely aboutethics and leadership in criminal justiceusing proper writing mechanics.

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Ethics and Integrity

Write a half to one (1/2 to 1) page (150 to 275 words) journal entry in which you:

  1. Explain three (3) important elements of ethics, morality, and integrity that will relate to your desired role in the field of criminal justice.
  2. Complete the page requirement.

The specific course learning outcome(s) associated with this assignment are:

  • Explain the role of ethics and integrity in the criminal justice profession, and the higher standard expected of criminal justice professionals.
  • Write clearly and concisely about ethics and leadership in criminal justice using proper writing mechanics.

 

Write a five (5) page Reflection Paper on movie-American History X. Write and consider family, race, prison & rehabilitation, law enforcement, and life after being in a documented gang.

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 American History X

Write a five (5) page Reflection Paper on movie-American History X. Write and consider family, race, prison & rehabilitation, law enforcement, and life after being in a documented gang(employment, contributions to society etc.)

Select five tools and explore how to use each one. Prepare a one-paragraph summary detailing how to use each of the tools selected.

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Password attack tools

Explore the password attack tools in Kali Linux http://tools.kali.org/tools-listing.

  • Select five tools and explore how to use each one.
  • Prepare a one-paragraph summary detailing how to use each of the tools selected.

 

Discuss the components involved with effective interagency communication and collaboration in the NIMS and ICS protocols during each of the 4 phases of emergency management.

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NIMS and ICS Components

When multiple agencies collaborate during times of crisis, it is critical for the success of the disaster response that communication follows the 4 phases of emergency management (mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery). In this assignment, you’ll analyze how components of NIMS (National Incident Management System) and ICS (Incident Command System) protocols help consistently facilitate these phases.

Write an 875 word paper on the importance of NIMS and ICS in interagency communication and collaboration as they relate to the 4 phases of emergency management. Address the following in your paper:

Identify the components involved in the NIMS and ICS protocols and explain how they relate to each of the 4 phases of emergency management.
Discuss the components involved with effective interagency communication and collaboration in the NIMS and ICS protocols during each of the 4 phases of emergency management.
Describe the impact that U.S. presidential disaster declarations have on the initiation of the NIMS and CIS protocols and, in turn, on the communication, collaboration, and interoperability within government agencies.

Identify the ways in which police officers are responding to a changing and diverse community. What can police agencies do to improve the trust between diverse members of the community?

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Special Problems and Challenges, and the Future of Policing in America

Law enforcement operations and strategies were historically driven by proven best practices. Current and future challenges now require a new approach combined with the responsiveness and comprehension of officers using a different thought process and judgment. These challenges require a fundamental transformation inclusive of new tools, new strategies, and new approaches. Use your textbook, the Internet, and/or the Strayer Library to research credible sources on the aforementioned issues as they relate to law enforcement operations and management and the social aspect of policing.

Write a 6–7 page paper in which you answer the following questions:
Identify the best practices being used by law enforcement agencies to ensure that officers are trained in all aspects of understanding and manipulating technology and technological devices in their attempts to keep up with the rapidly changing technological environment.
Identify the ways in which police officers are responding to a changing and diverse community. What can police agencies do to improve the trust between diverse members of the community?
Identify the agencies involved in investigating hate crimes. Identify the challenges involved in investigating hate crimes. Analyze the problems related to determining the actual number of hate crimes and what makes a hate crime different from other crimes. Describe how domestic terrorism and hate crimes are similar in nature.
What does the future of policing look like in America? Identify the myriad of challenges that those in the law enforcement community are currently facing, and will face in the future.
Go to Basic Search: Strayer University Online Library to locate and use at least four quality sources in this assignment.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references should follow the Strayer Writing Standards (SWS).
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

Given the problem identified in the article, as well as the information you have learned this semester, choose a side: Defund traditional policing; OR Refund and enhance traditional policing. Answer the following: Where do we go from here with policing? Why? How?

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As Adams Toughens on Crime, Some Fear a Return to ’90s Era Policing

Read this short news article: As Adams Toughens on Crime, Some Fear a Return to ’90s Era Policing By Katie Glueck and Ashley Southall March 26, 2022

  • https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/26/nyregion/broken-windows-eric-adams.html

Given the problem identified in the article, as well as the information you have learned this semester, choose a side: Defund traditional policing; OR Refund and enhance traditional policing.
Answer the following: Where do we go from here with policing? Why? How?

Do you believe we need to change the Criminal Justice System? Why or Why not. What does the movie offer as a solution to crime? Is the solution possible?

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Media and Crime

Astonishingly, more than 1 out of 4 people wrongfully convicted but later exonerated by DNA evidence made a false confession or incriminating statement.

Why do innocent people confess?

The reasons that people falsely confess are complex and varied, but what they tend to have in common is a belief that complying with the police by saying that they committed the crime in question will be more beneficial than continuing to maintain their innocence. The factors that can contribute to a false confession during a police interrogation include: Duress, coercion, intoxication, diminished capacity, mental impairment, ignorance of the law, fear of violence, the actual infliction of harm, the threat of a harsh sentence, misunderstanding the situation, and others…

For this assignment:

  1. Watch the “Making of a Murder” series on Netflix (Parts 1 and 2)
  2. Write a brief summary of the series
  3. Discuss your opinion about what happened
  4. Relate the confession in the series to an academic source

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C14&q=false+confessions&oq=false+con

  1. Do you believe we need to change the Criminal Justice System? Why or Why not. What does the movie offer as a solution to crime? Is the solution possible?

Paper needs to be double spaced, 2-3 pages, 10 or 12 point font, 1 inch margins, include your sources.  44 Points

 

Identify key findings from your SWOT analyses of individual and group behaviors in the workplace. Explain the impact of individual and group behaviors in the criminal justice organization setting that you selected.

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SWOT Analysis

Criminal justice organizations must harness the benefits of working together or alone while safeguarding against disadvantages. Individual accountability, mob mentality, and dynamic teamwork all represent different aspects of the continuum between individual and group processes and behaviors.

Training officers communicate with co-workers as well as leaders to train people in organizational behavior. As a training officer, you will periodically perform SWOT analyses and report your findings to leaders to make decisions.

Assessment Deliverable
Using a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) framework, conduct a SWOT analysis and write a 525- to 700-word summary of your results as if you were the training officer for an agency where you need to communicate your ideas with executive leaders. The leadership team at the agency is planning to meet to discuss the efficacy of its organizational behavior before they make decisions about changes. As a training officer, you have been asked to contribute information on individual and group behaviors within the agency for them to consider at the meeting.

Select a specific type of criminal justice agency (local, state, or federal), and research effective team dynamics and strategies for this type of agency.

Part 1: SWOT Analysis

Complete the SWOT Analysis Template for individual and group behaviors for the type of agency/work setting you selected.

Part 2: Executive Summary

Refer to your completed SWOT analysis to support ethical decision-making. Your summary should include the following information with supportive evidence from your research and SWOT analysis:

Identify key findings from your SWOT analyses of individual and group behaviors in the workplace.
Explain the impact of individual and group behaviors in the criminal justice organization setting that you selected.
Describe strategies to support individual and group ethical decision-making. Explain how to leverage individual and group behaviors into effective team strategies.

What major trends stuck out to you with regard to race and ethnicity? What major trends stuck out to you with regard to sex/gender? What major trends stuck out to you with regard to income? Discuss one intersectional trend that you found.

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Mapping the Trends

Instructions

NCVS-Criminal victimization 2020.pdf
After reviewing the NCVS document, discuss the following:

  • What major trends stuck out to you with regard to race and ethnicity?
  • What major trends stuck out to you with regard to sex/gender?
  • What major trends stuck out to you with regard to income (i.e., SES)?
  • Discuss one intersectional trend that you found.

*When asked “discuss the trends” that is your opportunity to tell me the major things that you’ve observed. You need to investigate and pick out patterns, NOT simply list the statistics (you will miss points if you do this).