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Final Essay Examination

Final Essay Examination

Q Upon completion of this assignment, you will be able to: • CO4: Evaluate the political, socialization, decision-making, and organizational processes in criminal justice organizations. • This assignment also addresses student learning PO2: Describe how decision-making influences policy and procedures. For your Final Essay Examination, you will respond to six (6) out of the eight (8) questions presented. Minimum word length response for each question is 250 words. This comprehensive final examination will be available for you to take beginning at 12:00 AM EST on the Monday morning of this module and will close promptly the following Sunday evening at 11:59 PM EST. It is suggested you write or print out the essay questions for reference as you develop your responses. Be sure to submit your essay exam in one MS Word document and place it in the appropriate assignment drop box. Complete this final essay examination by responding to ONLY (6) out of (8) of the following questions: (1) As a police chief what actions, methods, and policies would you recommend in improving the socialization process in your criminal justice organization? (2) Under what conditions and with what tasks are specific types of power more appropriate than others? (3) Give an example of a conflict where process intervention might be best used, and an example of conflict where structural intervention might be best in addressing the conflict. Explain why for each example. (4) Discuss the four factors crucial to change and innovation in police agencies as advanced by Skolnick and Bayley (1986). (5) Explain how each of the five general themes, found on pages 372-373, provide us with specific ideas for influencing the decision-making process. (6) Which of the following do you think is the better method in measuring organizational effectiveness: (a) The multigoal/multimeasure approach, or (b) variable analysis. Defend your choice with cited facts and examples. (7) A new set of assumptions is required to move from a traditional police agency to community policing. This move will necessarily affect the organization’s structural, human resource, political, and symbolic frames. Discuss and explain why? (8) Discuss how criminal justice administrators of the 21st century can better utilize knowledge, information, and the systematic collection, analysis, and application of data to improve criminal justice administration. Keep the following in mind when completing this final essay examination: • Your responses to each of the quiz questions should be a minimum of one page (250 words) and a maximum of two pages in length, double-spaced and written in 11-point Arial font or 12-point Times New Roman. • When developing your answers remember you must include (cited) facts to support the major points in your response. Your responses should not include continuous citations without your thoughts and analysis, as well. Rather, your responses must reflect a balance between facts and your perspective on the points you make. • Include the question you are responding to immediately before each answer. • Include a title/cover page. • Include cited references and format them in the American Psychological Association (APA) writing style (6th edition). • Submit your final examination in one MS Word document and place it in the appropriate assignment drop box for grading. Compose your work in a .doc or .docx file type using a word processor (such as Microsoft Word, etc.) and save it frequently to your computer. For those assignments that are not written essays and require uploading images or PowerPoint slides, please follow uploading guidelines provided by your instructor. Check your work and correct any spelling or grammatical errors. When you are ready to submit your work, click “Upload Submission.” Enter the submission title and then click on “Select a file to upload.” Browse your computer, and select your file. Click “Open” and verify the correct file name has appeared next to Submission File. Click on “Continue.” Confirm submission is correct and then click on “Accept Submission & Save.” Turnitin This course has Turnitin fully integrated into the course dropbox. This means that you should only submit your assignments to the dropbox below. Please do not submit your assignment directly to Turnitin.com. Once submitted, your assignment will be evaluated by Turnitin® automatically. You will be able to view an Originality Report within minutes of your first submission that will show how much of your work has been identified as similar to other sources such as websites, textbooks, or other student papers. Use your Originality Report as a learning tool to identify areas of your assignment that you may not have cited appropriately. You may resubmit your assignment through this dropbox as many times as you need to check to see if you have made improvements, until the due date of the assignment. However, once you have made your first submission, you will need to wait 24 hours after each subsequent submission to receive a new Originality Report. Plan accordingly as you draft your assignment. Once the due date has passed, your assignment submission will be considered final. Evaluation This assignment will be graded using the SPS Default Essay Exam Rubric located on the Course Rubrics page within the Start Here section of the course. Please review the rubric prior to beginning your work so that you ensure your submission meets the criteria in place for this assignment. This assignment is worth 25% of your final course grade.

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Socialization is the means through which new officers join the police subculture and sustain its standards and existence (Stojkovic et al., 2014). The process of socialization involves the introduction of recruits to police officers who impart not only their expertise but also any undesirable qualities they have. As a technique of understanding the unwritten rules of the workplace, socialization is a good influence on most occupations (Stojkovic et al., 2014). In law enforcement, socialization can have both positive and harmful effects on the police.