Overview:

In Milestone One, you selected an agency and developed an issue statement regarding a need of that agency. In this milestone, you will incorporate your Milestone One work into the Overview of Community and Need section and then research the need described in your issue statement and produce a literature review that lists the resources you consulted. There will be research to be performed for this milestone. This will be the second of three milestones that lead to a successful capstone completion. Once you have researched, identified, and located the articles for your literature review, you need to analyze them and organize them before you begin working on your outline. You should organize these articles to best help you formulate evidence-based recommendations that will make a positive difference in the agency.

Prompt:

You will submit your agency needs assessment, which includes a literature review with a brief synopsis of each resource you plan to use for the findings and recommendations report. You should use both primary and secondary sources, evaluate how these sources relate to your issue, develop criminological theories, discuss any ethical impact, describe any technological impact, and provide a review of the literature on the issue. Your findings and recommendations report (Milestone Three) will include the statement of need, program recommendations, goals and objectives, staffing/administration/resource needs, and evaluation plan.

Make sure to include the following in your paper:

Capstone Component 1: Agency Needs Assessment

I. Overview of Community and Need:
This section should serve as the foundation for presenting your agency needs assessment; it is your opportunity to comprehensively describe the selected agency and its identified need. Overall, it is important to include any information that is pertinent for comprehending the agency and need. It is up to you to establish a robust context for understanding and responding to the agencys need.

II. Communication with the Agency:
This section should include a summary of your research in addition to any correspondence between you and your selected agency that has occurred up to this point in the term. This will include the agencys description of its need and why it is a need, as well as the research you conducted with the agency to obtain additional information about the need, such as why the need is present and what resources were previously used to attempt to address the need. While conducting interviews with the agency, use the interview consent form provided in the course materials. Remember: If you are not able to get in contact with an agency, you may use the agencys website and the agencys mission and vision for the foundation of your project.

III. Gathering Community Information (Methodology):
Your methodology for this project is a brief systematic literature review. In this section, discuss how you collected your information and provide justification for your chosen method(s). Describe step-by-step for the reader how you conducted your brief systematic literature review so that the reader could follow your methods if they wanted to replicate the study.

IV. Literature Review:
Using primary and secondary sources, provide a brief review of the literature and an evaluative review of the topic. What does the literature say about the topic, and how will you utilize this information? Through a review of the literature, your evaluation should include but not be limited to the relationship of the following to your topic:

A.  The application of criminological theories B.  Ethical impact C.  The impact of the organizational culture D.  The impact of technologies E.  Previously attempted interventions in other agencies around this issue and their success (or lack thereof)

V. Need Analysis: This section should include your analysis of the data you gathered on the agency need. This will provide your conclusions drawn from the raw data you described in the preceding section. Referring to your assessment of the agency and comprehensive analysis and evaluation of the problem, address the following: A.  What is the magnitude of the problem in the agency? B.  What resources and interventions currently exist in the agency? C.  Provide a description of the impact the current resources and interventions are having on the agency. Are they effective? Why or why not? D.  What obstacles exist in the agency that prevent impacting or addressing the problem?

Guidelines for Submission:
Your paper must be submitted as a 3- 5 -page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.

The paper must involve a topic specific to law enforcement. This means any topic related to any type of policing (local, state, federal), women in law enforcement, use of force issues, police ethics, court rulings affecting police behavior, etc. General topics of criminal justice including juvenile delinquency, domestic violence, etc. are not acceptable unless they are about law enforcements response to these problems.
2) Use in-text citing (APA format) for your sources. In-text citing involves typing the author’s last name and copywrite date or page number (for a direct quote) for information gained from your sources, even if you paraphrase. To complete an in-text citing, observe the following:
In 2014, the city of Norfolk reported a total of 10,000 Part I Offenses including homicide, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny and motor vehicle theft (Mueller, 2014).
In your bibliography, you would cite, in alphabetical order by the author’s last name, the source where this information came from:
Mueller, Robert S., FBI Uniform Crime Report, U.S. Department of Justice, 2014.
If your sentence includes a direct quote, the quote should be within quotation marks followed by the authors last name and the page number from your source on which the quote is located:
Robert Mueller stated that “the number of Crime Index offenses reported to law enforcement agencies increased 1.3% during the first 6 months of 2014” (Mueller, 26).
Long quotes (direct quotes over 4 lines long) should be indented and single spaced.
3) Use only scholarly sources to describe your crime problem. Do not cite information using Time, U.S. News and World Report, newspaper articles, textbooks from college courses, websites whose information cannot be verified such as Amnesty International, COPwatch .org, etc. Do not use your required classroom textbook or any other material handed out in class as your sources. Your sources must be recent. Except for explaining something in an historical context, do not use sources older than 2-3 years. There is constant publication of books and journal articles related to law enforcement and your paper should reflect current thoughts.
CRJS 323 Syllabus & Class Outline
4) The basic outline of your paper should be this: I. Introduction
a) Introduce your topic and keep paper in 3rd person professional format
b) Explain why this topic is important to research and lay out a few questions the paper will attempt to answer. This will not only help you to write an organized paper, but also takes the guess work out of the reader trying to determine exactly what your paper is trying to accomplish.
II. Body of Paper
a) This should be the bulk of your paper: describe the dimensions of the topic using scientific, statistical data, government reports, etc.
b) What does your research tell you about the topic you are writing about?
c) Make sure you answer the questions set out in the introduction. Do not leave the reader
III. Conclusion
wondering why you did not answer the issues you stated would be addressed.
Briefly summarize the research findings and future implications related to your topic. Be careful not to go back into your topic of research in such detail that the information should have been included in the body of your text. Simply summarize the findings in a broad sense and end with some future implication. This will give the paper a sense of finality and close out the project.
Your paper should be double spaced, 8-10 pages in length (not including title pages, cover pages, or the bibliography). Grammar and spelling will count in as much that if your paper becomes difficult to read because of errors, your grade will drop dramatically. Computers with word processing and spell checkers are available at ODU.
Most important factors influencing a higher or lower grade:
Concrete topic to research; readily identifiable/acceptable topic
Use of scientific sources (no classroom material or textbooks from other classes) Current/scientific sources used to write paper
Coherent presentation of ideas
Correct citing of sources in paper (all ideas not your own cited and make sure if you reference a source in your paper it appears in your works cited page and vice versa!!)
Correct format of works cited page
No more than (1) homepage source
A website is only (1) source no matter how many links it has

Submit an annotated bibliography by no later than Sunday of week 4. Late submissions of this assignment will not be accepted. Be sure that you collect a minimum of 12 articles for the annotated bibliography and create an outline of the paper with the annotated bibliography to be sure you have enough to move forward. Thesis Statement: Community policing that aims at integrating the police and the public is the antidote to police bias in arrests and will lead to a reductions in cases of police brutality.

Design a public opinion poll or survey to elicit information from the key actors about the selected public policy.

Include the following in your poll:

The key actors (legislators, interest groups, and activists, etc.)
Five survey questions for each key actor
The survey instrument you intend to use
Include the following in your paper:
Why the key actors were chosen
Why the particular questions were chosen

paper is to be 250-350 words

Written Assignment: (Predictive Policing Paper):Each student will read the journal article listed in the course syllabus. Students are also encouraged to review other articles and the course text for additional research on this subject. Students will then write a 1500 word, double spaced, APA formatted paper on the following topic.Predictive policing, data mining and predictive analysis support the overall mission of law enforcement. This technology builds upon the existing models of crime analysis and crime mapping technology. CompStat and PredPol are two examples of this type of technology. However, this technology is controversial and directly affects the publics right to privacy. Students will describe, analyze and critique this type of technology in detail and examine the potential implications (assess the strengths, weaknesses and potentials) and benefits to law enforcement and the public. Examine the role of a law enforcement manager (how would you manage or use the technology).
Your paper must the following issues: Identification/Introduction of Predictive PolicingImplications to Law Enforcement OrganizationsRole of Law Enforcement ManagerPotential benefit to all stakeholders (including the public)Privacy or legal concerns

Paper must have a Reference page

The following discussion comes from your week 4 readings. Outside research to address these issues is encouraged. I would suggest using the online library for additional sources of information and research.  In addition, I would recommend utilizing the legal studies program guide. Please remember to cite your references.

The Fifth Amendment protect individuals against self- incrimination. The Sixth Amendment affords individuals protections in the criminal process.

This forum asks you to examine the rights afforded to individuals under the Fifth and Sixth Amendment.

Please thoroughly discuss each of the following:

1. Discuss the difference between an arrest and a custodial interrogation. When must Miranda be given to an individual?

2. Discuss how the court determines if a confession should be admissible or not. What does the court look for to determine if a confession is voluntarily given?

3. Discuss when an individual has the right to counsel. Is this right absolute? What other safeguards does the Sixth Amendment afford a criminal defendant?

Submit an annotated bibliography by no later than Sunday of week 4. Late submissions of this assignment will not be accepted. Be sure that you collect a minimum of 12 articles for the annotated bibliography and create an outline of the paper with the annotated bibliography to be sure you have enough to move forward.

Thesis Statement: Community policing that aims at integrating the police and the public is the antidote to police bias in arrests and will lead to a reductions in cases of police brutality.

Single space not double.

answers the question thoroughly, with supporting arguments
How different do you think the medias portrayal would be if women were better represented on the boards of major media companies? How could substantive equality be used to increase the number of women on the boards?
a.    answers the question thoroughly, with supporting arguments

2.    Do you think your view of women how they should look and behave has been influenced by the media?  Explain why or why not.
a.    answers the question thoroughly, with supporting arguments

3.    How different would ad campaigns and TV shows look if formal equality was applied to how women and men are portrayed in the media?
a.    excellent application of formal equality, with examples provided

4.    Find an example of an ad or article that illustrates one of the points discussed in the documentary.  Explain how it does so and attach a link to it.
a.    applicable ad or article, excellent explanation

5.    What was your response to the documentary?  Did it change how you view women’s representation in the media?  Be specific.
a.    thoughtful and complete response to both questions, examples provided

6.    How did the NY Times article portray Nancy Pelosi, in contrast to the examples of how media portray women politicians in the documentary?  Do you think people would judge her interactions with the president in the same way if she were a man?
a.    answers the question thoroughly, with supporting arguments

Form and Substance 10 points
1.    Instructions followed
a.    all instructions followed

2.    Quality of the writing
a.    few grammatical, punctuation errors