...Cristi Scavone Effective Communication Paper Interpersonal Communications CJA/304 Mr. James Backus Within in the lines of effective communication comes a verbal, and nonverbal technique. Theses are just a few of the components. Being able to verbally communicate with someone is an absolute must, especially in the law enforcement field. You have to acquire the skills to be able to communicate with the general public, request help from other officers in the surrounding area, advise all suspects of their Miranda rights, and inform your superiors that certain events have occurred. With that, verbal skills are required for all officers to comprehend and transmit any statements given by superiors, suspects, and citizens. Nonverbal forms of communication include writing via reports, emails, etc. “Written communication skills are required for law officers to fill out various police reports, draft narrative summaries, and understand written policy directives.2 Written reports are the basis for recalling past events, and police officers rely on them daily when they testify in court. The ability to write in a clear and concise manner does not come naturally. Like any activity, it must be practiced until it is mastered. Once mastered, this skill must continually be used or it will become unfocused and useless. A professional athlete spends hours each day honing the skills necessary to participate in a sport. Police officers, however, may spend less than 10 percent of any shift...
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...Bibliography Armstrong, Michael F. “They Wished They Were Honest” The Knapp Commission and New York City Police Corruption Publication: June 2012 by: Columbia University Press In the course of his narrative, Armstrong illuminates police investigative strategy; governmental and departmental political maneuvering; ethical and philosophical issues in law enforcement; the efficacy of the police's anticorruption efforts; the effectiveness of the training of police officers; the psychological and emotional pressures that lead to corruption; and the effects of police criminality on individuals and society. Hunt, Jennifer and Peter K. Manning. “Symbolic Interaction” 14.1 (1991): 51-70-Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Lies are relative to a moral context, and what an audience will accept. Police learn to lie and to carefully distinguish normal (or acceptable) lies from unacceptable lies, suggesting that lies are a part of a negotiated occupational order. This study reports and analyzes two kinds of troublesome lies: case lies, recognized stories an officer utilizes in a courtroom or on paper to facilitate the conviction of a suspect, and cover stories, lies an officer tells in court, to supervisors, and on the job with the aim of providing a verbal shield or mitigation in the event of discipline. Moskos. Peter. “Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District” Publication: August 2009 by Princeton University Press When Harvard-trained sociologist Peter...
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...The Elements of Megan’s Law “The principal elements of Megan’s Law provides for the registration of sex offenders and the creation of a central registry, community notification, and notification procedures for the release of certain offenders” (Brooks, 1996, p. 764). In New Jersey, a person must register if he or she was “convicted, adjudicated delinquent, or acquitted by reason of insanity” of either aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual contact, kidnapping, or endangering the welfare of a child (Whitman & Farmer, 2000, p. 6-7). The New Jersey Guidelines, signed by Governor Whitman and Attorney General Farmer, states that if an offender was released from custody or on parole or probation since the effective...
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...Early Detroit Experiences of Blacks Blacks were brought into the Detroit area initially as slaves during the 1700’s, a fact that has been rarely discussed and mostly documented in scholarly articles and books (Boyd 17-22; Farley and Danziger 15; Katzman 5; Martelle 35-36; McGraw qtd. in Stone 13-22). As blacks began to migrate into the city from being the overwhelming dominant inhabitants of the south, racists attitudes were persistent, and reminiscent of the bigotry they experienced from their original homelands. Segregation, which was the law in the south, was openly and tacitly enforced in northern cities, including Detroit. Civil disturbances in the 1800’s are examples of the climate of racial distress in Detroit in its early days of existence...
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...Final Project: The Role and Life of a Mental Health Counselor Books, television, and movies are full of stories revealing the day-to-day realities of various professions. These stories provide a behind-the-scenes look at the often unknown stress, joy, and effort involved in being a doctor, law enforcement agent, or even a chef. What do you think the day-to-day life of a mental health counselor is like? What constitutes a typical day for a mental health counselor, or is there no such thing? For the Final Project in this course, you uncover the hidden realities of the daily life of a mental health counselor. The Final Project requires you to interview (in person) a licensed mental health counselor who works with a population in a setting that interests you. For example, if you are interested in working as an in-home counselor with children diagnosed with mood disorders, interview someone who does this work. You then apply the information from this course, as well as in an interview you conduct, to your understanding of what it means to be a mental health counselor. *Please note that it is NOT acceptable to interview a psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, addictions specialist, school counselor, or other mental health provider for this assignment. Although the Final Project includes interview material, this is not the only component of this assignment. Please make sure to review the full project description below. The Final Project is a 7- to 10-page paper that...
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...active steps can be taken to eliminate risk factors and reduce the affects of any possible risks. Some critics believe that businesses should adhere to an ethical or a socially responsible behavior that is higher than the law. Organizations and or employers tell us that one way to increase compliance with the company’s core ethical values is to convince the staff that their best interest and the firm’s are met by acting ethically (Mallor, Barnes, Bowers, & Langvardt, 2010). Moreover, if the company’s ethical values are in place, the action to report unlawful behavior should not be as difficult. Subsequently, individuals labeled as whistleblowers in the workplace has a challenging, ethical and or morally, as well as lawful thing to do. The intent of this paper is to give a brief synopsis of ethics, whistleblowers, dilemmas of whistleblowers, legal issues involved with individuals labeled as whistleblowers, to include the government and society (The Occupational Safety and Health Administration Act, The Whistleblowers Protection Act, Sarbanes-Oxley Act and False Claim Act) State and Federal Laws protecting whistleblowers, and corrective ways to combat the stigma associated with whistleblowers. Ethics Ethical behavior is important in both one’s personal and professional life. In part, it is who we are as an individual. Specifically, ethics...
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...and cultivation of mutually dependent relationships with legitimate business. The five factors that influence a justice decision are Constitution, Precedent, Judicial Philosophy, Intent, and Public Opinion. According to an article I read in a book from David O. Carpenter the Constitution states, “We, the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America” (The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States). The constitution of the United States of America is the supreme law of the United States. Binding precedent obligates a court to follow its decisions, while persuasive precedent...
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...we must consider who we influence. On May 30, 2000 Charles Barkley is noted for claiming that “I’m no role model.” Whether that claim was made out of humility, or to eschew responsibility for the behavior of young people, simply making the claim resulted in influencing many people for years. Maxwell suggests that the question “is not whether we will influence someone”, but rather “what kind of influencer you will be.” (Maxwell, 1993, p.4) We influence practically everyone we come in contact with because our actions are subject to interpretation and response. Maxwell tells us that “We never know who or how much we influence.” This idea is emphasized in the narrative of Drew Dudley’s TED presentation. He was unaware of the profound impact that his “lollipop moment” had left on a young lady’s educational and personal life until years later. (Dudley, 2010). In keeping with the idea that leadership can be taught, Maxwell contends that “influence is a skill that can be developed.” (Maxwell, 1993, p.5) The...
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...surrounding communications whether it is verbal or nonverbal it is very important. A document published by the US Navy states that communicating is essentially a mental maze to be mastered. As we talk about verbal communication skills are very essential to talk to members of the public, request assistance from their peers, and even advise suspects of their Miranda rights, and they have to inform their superiors of what actions they are taking. Another thing is that oral skills are extremely needed for officers to understand and transmit statements made by citizens, suspects, and their superiors. (Wallace & Roberson, Chapter 2, 2009). Now we can talk about written communication skills are required for law officers to fill out many types of reports, starting from just draft narrative summaries, and understanding written policy directives. The reports that the officers use it tells whomever reads it what events happened and the officers rely solely on the reports when they are testifying in court. The ability to write a great and precise report does take a lot of practice, just like everything else. Like the saying goes “practice makes perfection”. Now with this specific type of communication once a person has mastered this skill to write to perfection it needs to be used as often as a person can, hopefully daily so the skill can be useful and not become unfocused and useless. A perfect example according to the chapter (Wallace & Roberson, Chapter 2, 2009) a football players spends...
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...technological developments in particular are causes of concern (Conway, 2012). Recently, we have seen a boom in new social media (NSM) and other web 2.0 applications, bearing a large potential for communication and networking (Conway, 2012). These developments have transformed the world in an online village, with every offline actor being represented online. It is therefore no surprise that criminals, radicals, violent extremists and terrorists also use this medium to their advantage (Benschop, 2006; Stevens & Neuhmann, 2009; Weimann, 2004). By means of the Internet and NSM, violent extremist organisations and individuals are able to easily reach each other and address a broad, global audience, using an extensive and dynamic set of narratives. This has caused a growing fear that recruitment and violent radicalisation will increase under influence of the Internet (Thompson, 2011). According to the AIVD1 (2006) the Internet may even be...
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...Criminology & Criminal Justice © 2006 SAGE Publications (London, Thousand Oaks & New Delhi) and the British Society of Criminology. www.sagepublications.com ISSN 1748–8958; Vol: 6(1): 39–62 DOI: 10.1177/1748895806060666 A desistance paradigm for offender management FERGUS McNEILL Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde, UK Abstract In an influential article published in the British Journal of Social Work in 1979, Anthony Bottoms and Bill McWilliams proposed the adoption of a ‘non-treatment paradigm’ for probation practice. Their argument rested on a careful and considered analysis not only of empirical evidence about the ineffectiveness of rehabilitative treatment but also of theoretical, moral and philosophical questions about such interventions. By 1994, emerging evidence about the potential effectiveness of some intervention programmes was sufficient to lead Peter Raynor and Maurice Vanstone to suggest significant revisions to the ‘non-treatment paradigm’. In this article, it is argued that a different but equally relevant form of empirical evidence—that derived from desistance studies—suggests a need to re-evaluate these earlier paradigms for probation practice. This reevaluation is also required by the way that such studies enable us to understand and theorize both desistance itself and the role that penal professionals might play in supporting it. Ultimately, these empirical and theoretical insights drive us back to the complex interfaces between technical and moral...
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...Whistleblowing: Necessary Evil or Good Thing Maureen Haley University of North Carolina – Asheville April 16, 2014 This paper was prepared for Management 484-001, taught by Professor Donald D. Lisnerski Whistleblowing: Necessary Evil or Good Thing Is whistleblowing a necessary evil or good thing? Can whistleblowing be avoided? Can the whistleblower be protected? “A whistleblower is an employee who discovers corporate misconduct and chooses to bring it to the attention of others.”(Ghillyer, 2014) Whistleblowers can be viewed as providing a praiseworthy act or be severely labeled as informers who have breached the loyalty of their co-workers and company. Whistleblowing can be a service to the community and public. Whistleblowing can be ethical or unethical, and the whistleblower discovering corporate misconduct has the options to be an internal or an external whistleblower. Whistleblowing can save people’s lives. Dr. Jeffrey Wigand made the decision to go public with information that his employer Brown & Williamson (B&W) was manipulating the nicotine content, suppressed efforts to develop safer cigarettes, and lied about the addictive properties of nicotine. According to Sissela Bok, in the book Taking Sides: Clashing views in Business Ethics and Society, “not only is loyalty violated in whistleblowing, hierarchy as well is often opposed, since the whistleblower is not only a colleague but a subordinate. Though aware of the risks inherent in such disobedience...
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...today. Most have established their social life in the internet. However cyber bullying is very common. In 2011, Zottola and Tenenbaum explain how a person can destroy your privacy on the internet. Some Kidnapped because of the information see in one’s personal account on the internet. The problem of many online users’ right now is how to avoid the so-called “privacy invasion” particularly on Facebook and Twitter. According to Tagvoryan & Briones in 2009, the explosion of social networking sites on the Internet has raised many questions regarding this expectation of privacy for users. Recent legal developments around the world provide insights into the future interpretation of the Fourth Amendment’s “expectation of privacy” as it applies to the users of these websites. Hughes, Horn, Debatin and Lovejoy in 2009 illustrates particularly how useful Facebook and Twitter for viewing this evolving legal landscape, two of the most popular social networking sites. Specific privacy concerns of online social networking include inadvertent disclosure of personal information, damaged reputation due to rumors and gossip, unwanted contact and harassment or stalking, surveillance-like structures due to backtracking functions, use of personal data by third-parties, and hacking and identity theft. Facebook and Twitter are the two of the most widely used social networking sites by millions of people around the world. Without Facebook a life of a student is almost unthinkable. Research...
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...CHAPTER 3 COLONIAL HISTORY TRACKED Colonialism trumpeted the cultural superiority and rightness of the White. The European empire is said to have held sway over more than eighty-five percent of the rest of the globe by the time of the First World War, having consolidated power and control over several centuries. One of the ways by which colonialism maintained power was by writing its own histories. These histories were conceived within grand narratives of progress, expansion and enlightenment. Inevitably, they both systematically and accidentally recast, ignored and silenced other competing histories from the places and cultures with which they came into contact. Post - colonial studies has consequently set itself the task of examining and challenging those narratives, developing other ways of telling histories, and re – evaluating other ways of remembering. If post- colonial literature means the interrogation of the subaltern to the “center”, no other book is representative of the post-colonial theory and practice as Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace. The novel won the 2001 Frankfurt e – book Award of fifty thousand dollars Grand Prize for Fiction. Abreast of the contemporary academic debates about colonialism and culture, Ghosh is well-equipped in challenging the institutionalized perspectives...
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