For your senior project,
choose one of the following major criminal justice areas: law enforcement,
prisons/corrections, the courts, Homeland Security, private security, or
emergency management. This component will serve as the area for which your
senior project will be based.
Next, identify a challenge or area of improvement within your chosen area. (For
example, one may choose corrections as the topic area and violence in prisons
as the problem). Over the weeks of this course, you will progressively research,
learn about, write and present on a solution to the challenge or area of
improvement from both a tactical and administrative perspective. Receive
approval from your professor on your chosen topic. Additional project
expectations are described in week 8.
Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you address the following:
1.
Outline the
context of the problem or challenge, including the history and any policy
decisions that have contributed to the situation.
2.
Why is it
important that the problem be addressed?
3.
Who is impacted
internally and externally?
4.
Why do you feel
the problem hasnt already been solved?
5.
Use at least
three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify
as academic resources.
6.
Be typed, double
spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all
sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format.
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Assignment 1:Identifying the Challenge |
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Criteria |
Unacceptable Below 60% F |
Meets Minimum Expectations 60-69% D |
Fair 70-79% C |
Proficient 80-89% B |
Exemplary 90-100% A |
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1. Outline the context of the problem or Weight: 20% |
Did not submit or incompletely outlined the |
Insufficiently outlined the context of the |
Partially outlined the context of the problem or |
Satisfactorily outlined the context of the |
Thoroughly outlined the context of the problem or |
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2. Why is it important that the problem be addressed? Weight: 20% |
Did not submit or incompletely discussed why it |
Insufficiently discussed why it is important that |
Partially discussed why it is important that the |
Satisfactorily discussed why it is important that |
Thoroughly discussed why it is important that the |
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3. Who is impacted internally and externally? Weight: 25% |
Did not submit or incompletely discussed who is |
Insufficiently discussed who is impacted |
Partially discussed who is impacted internally |
Satisfactorily discussed who is impacted |
Thoroughly discussed who is impacted internally |
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4. Why do you feel the problem hasn’t already Weight: 20% |
Did not submit or incompletely expressed why you |
Insufficiently expressed why you feel the problem |
Partially expressed why you feel the problem has |
Satisfactorily expressed why you feel the problem |
Thoroughly expressed why you feel the problem has |
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5. Use at least three (3) quality Weight: 5% |
No references provided |
Does not meet the required number of references; |
Does not meet the required number of references; |
Meets number of required references; all |
Exceeds number of required references; all |
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6. Clarity, writing mechanics and formatting Weight: 10% |
More than 8 errors present |
7-8 errors present |
5-6 errors present |
3-4 errors |
