Adjusting To Terrorism

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Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper on an administrative change you would propose to make in a criminal justice agency in an effort to combat terrorism more effectively.

Describe the prior situation, the reasons for the proposed change, and the anticipated positive results or potential negative consequences of the change.

Identify the resources the change would require or make available–financial resources, human resources, and training dollars–and the management support the change would need.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment.

Note. You may use your present agency if you are employed in a criminal justice organization, or you may base your response on your understanding of criminal justice agencies through your prior coursework.

Empowerment & Delegation

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Empowerment and Delegation

This assignment has two parts. In part 1, you will review scenarios and answer questions related to empowerment for each person. In part 2, you will answer questions about empowerment and delegation.

Part 1: Scenarios

Read each scenario and answer the question that follow in at least 90 words in preparation for part 2.

Nancy Walters

Nancy is an administrative assistant in a prosecutor’s office. For most of her two years with the office, she has served as a receptionist and a file clerk. She has been attending paralegal school for the past six months. Noted for her satisfactory performance, especially as a multitasker, she has made an effort to learn about the duties of other staff positions. Nancy has approached you, the chief prosecutor, about wanting to take on other responsibilities she believes would provide her with more job satisfaction. She specifically requests to help the assistant prosecutors put their case files together. Nancy believes she can do this when there is little activity at the receptionist’s desk.

1. Would you empower Nancy to take on additional responsibilities? Why?

Richard Smyth

Some of the supervisors at the police department believe Richard has an “attitude problem.” He constantly complains; however, sometimes he has legitimate points. He has been with the agency eight years and does his job, but can’t keep his mouth in check. His superiors remember when he was very active and performed at a very high level. He always comments negatively when one of the “young guns” is promoted or receives a commendation for excellent work. A supervisor suggests to you, the patrol division commander, that perhaps Richard needs a significant project or responsibility to pursue. The supervisor argues Richard has the talent and experience to do just about anything. Perhaps showing a little trust in him and focusing his energy away from criticizing others would help reduce his negativity.

1. Would you empower Richard? Why? If yes, how would you identify an enterprise for him to pursue?

Angie O’Reilly

Angie has been a patrol officer for three years. She has a strong desire to be a detective. While her only formal training has been completion of the recruit academy, she has shown a willingness to follow up on details for the investigative division. Her legwork in her free time on patrol has helped detectives who did not have time to go out in the field. Currently, there are no open positions in the investigative division.

1. Is there a way to empower Angie to take on more investigative responsibility?

Steve Morris

You are the new police chief on a small college campus. Steve is the assistant police chief. You have four sergeants, each supervising a patrol team of four officers. Most of the officers have college degrees. The department is busy during the fall, less so in the spring, and very quiet during semester breaks and the summer. You realize Steve is overloaded with administrative responsibilities. He creates work schedules, reviews officer reports, hires and monitors student workers, maintains the property and evidence room, keeps the log of incidents on campus for review by the media and the public, liaises with all the fraternities and sororities, and conducts training. You need him to work on a comprehensive overhaul of the campus parking plan, but he doesn’t seem to have the time.

1. Is there a way empowerment and delegation can rectify this situation?

Part 2: Empowerment and Delegation in Criminal Justice

Write a 700- to 1,400-word paper in which you discuss the following:

1. Explain the process of empowerment and delegation in criminal justice organizations. Include the role of trust related to delegation and empowerment.

1. Analyze the implications of empowerment and delegation in a criminal justice organization. In what ways does the organization benefit?

1. Discuss whether employees in the scenarios are ready for empowerment. Incorporate your responses to each scenario from part 1.

Include at least four peer-reviewed references.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment.

others. If you empower employees to be critical thinkers and make decisions, they will show that they are capable of learning more and taking on more responsibility. In this assignment, you will review a few scenarios and discuss the possible outcomes.

Complete the Empowerment and Delegation assignment.

Submit your assignment.

Discuss the three leadership positions

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Answer the following questions in 500 words for each question. There are 2 questions.

1)

Discuss the three leadership positions (supervisors, managers, and administrators) in criminal justice agencies. Include specific examples of each leadership position’s roles and responsibilities in your answer. If you had to choose, which position would you like to ultimately hold? Explain your rationale.

Your answer must be at least 500 words in length.

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Explain the criminal justice model. Outline the model by identifying factors that may influence the various paths that an individual may take through the criminal justice system once an arrest is made. Why do you think the basic model, which was created in 1967, is still used today? Do you believe it can or should be improved upon? Explain your rationale.

Your answer must be at least 500 words in length.

Conduct Company and Financial Research

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Graded Project

CALR

 

 

CALR GRADED PROJECT

INTRODUCTION Attorneys delegate legal research assignments to paralegals daily. Paralegals must be able to use CALR systems, such as Lexis Advance, WESTLAW, and the Internet, to quickly and efficiently retrieve legal information. This graded project will test your skills in this critical area. Read the description of each legal research assignment and complete each assignment using the Internet and Lexis Advance.

INTERNET Use the Internet for Sections I, II, and III of this project.

Section I: Build a Judge Profile Your firm has a case coming up for trial. Your supervising attorney needs you to profile the judge using the Internet. The judge’s name is Kathleen O’Malley, a federal district judge in Ohio. Print your research results.

Section II: Perform Company Research Your attorney has signed on a new client, Dell Computer Corporation, and wants to learn more about Dell’s business operations. Print two company profiles from independent sources.

Section III: Evaluate Internet Information Quality Go to http://www.whitehouse.gov and http://www.whitehouse.net and compare and analyze the two websites. Write 2-3 paragraphs evaluating the content of the information of the two sites.

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LEXIS ADVANCE Use Lexis Advance for Sections IV, V, VI, and VII of this project.

Section IV: Formulate a Search Request Your supervising attorney represents a drug manufacturer that developed a new arthritis drug. During clinical trials, volunteers who took the drug experienced heart palpitations and nervousness. The drug manufacturer asked your firm if it must disclose the side effects of the drug to potential patients. The client needs an answer to this question as soon as possible to determine if it should seek FDA approval to release the drug to the public. Formulate two queries for the research assignment using (A) natural language and (B) terms and connectors. Use federal and state case law as your sources. Print just the first page of your research results in the cite list format for each search query. Be sure your search requests are visible.

Section V: Search and Retrieve Primary and Secondary Legal Materials

A. Retrieve and print the first two pages of the following case by citation: 17 Cal. 3d 425.

B. Retrieve and print the first two pages of any case involving the following party name: Trump Wilshire Associates.

C. Retrieve and print the first two pages of the following case by docket number: B018788.

D. Explain how to narrow your results and how to view the results.

E. Describe the types of secondary materials that are available on Lexis Advance, and name five specific sources.

Section VI: Verify the Accuracy of Case Law and Statutes Your supervising attorney gave you the following citations:

QQ 217 B.R. 598

QQ 523 U.S. 574

QQ Fed. R. Civ. P. 26

 

 

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She wants you to validate the legal materials to find out if they’re still good law. Carry out the assignment and print your research results. It’s OK to print only the first few pages if you get a lot of hits. (Note: For the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, select your first hit and print the first page.)

Section VII: Conduct Company and Financial Research Locate the company headquarters, address, and telephone number for eBay, the online auction house. Print samples of your research results.

A. Print the first two pages of the latest quarterly (10Q) report for Dell Computer Corporation.

B. Please note, to ensure that you’ve included all the required assignments, label each assignment with the appropriate roman numeral and letter if applicable. Paper clip the papers for each assignment together.

Expectations for This Project You should be able to perform factual, business, and legal research on the Internet; understand how a paralegal uses the Internet in the legal environment; start a Lexis Advance research session; formulate a search request; search for documents; search and retrieve primary and secondary legal sources; verify the accuracy of citations using Shepard’s citation service; locate, profile, and investigate companies; conduct financial and business research; and find factual resources.

Grading Criteria for This Project

Content 100%

I. Build a judge profile 5%

II. Perform company research 5%

III. Evaluate Internet information quality 10%

IV. Formulate a search request 15%

V. Search and retrieve primary and secondary legal materials 25%

VI. Verify the accuracy of case law and statutes 25%

VII. Conduct company and financial research 15%

 

 

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Exemplary Proficient Fair Not Evident

Build a judge profile

Provides a thorough judge profile

Provides an adequate judge profile

Provides mini- mal evidence of a judge profile

No evidence of a judge profile

Perform compa- ny research

2 thorough company profiles from inde- pendent sources are included.

2 adequate company profiles from independent sources are included.

1 company profile from independent sources is included.

No evidence of company profiles from independent sources is included.

Evaluate Inter- net information quality

Thorough para- graphs evaluating the content of the in- formation in the two sites are provided.

Adequate paragraphs evaluating the content of the information in the two sites are provided.

Minimal evidence is provided of evaluating the content of the information in the two sites.

No evidence of evaluating content of the information in the sites is provided.

Formulate a search request

2 or more queries for the research assignment using (A) natural language and (B) terms and connectors are provided.

2 queries for the research assignment us- ing (A) natural language and (B) terms and connectors are provided.

1 query for the research assignment us- ing (A) natural language and (B) terms and connectors is provided.

No evidence of queries for the research assignment are provided

Search and retrieve primary and secondary legal materials

All 5 materials are provided.

4 materials are provided.

3 or fewer materials are provided.

No evidence of primary or secondary materials is provided.

Verify the accuracy of case law and statutes

Thoroughly validates the legal materials

Adequately val- idates the legal materials

Minimal evidence of val- idating the legal materials

No evidence validating the legal materials

Conduct company and financial research

Locates the compa- ny headquarters, ad- dress, and telephone number for eBay, the online auction house. Provides samples of research results. Provides the first two pages of the latest quarterly (10Q) report for Dell Computer Corpo- ration

Locates most of the company information and provides quar- terly reports

Locates mini- mal company information and provides quar- terly reports

No evidence of company information or quarterly reports

 

 

 

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SUBMITTING YOUR PROJECT 1. Go to http://www.pennfoster.edu and log on as a student. 2. Go to your Student Portal.

3. Click on Take Exam next to the lesson you’re working on.

4. Enter your email address in the box provided. (Note: This information is required for online submission.)

5. Attach your file as follows:

a. Click on the Browse box.

b. Locate the file you wish to attach.

c. Double-click on the file.

d. Click on Upload File.

6. Click on Submit Files.

Be sure to keep a backup copy of your completed work.