MCJ5390 Unit V Essay

Instructions

To achieve transparency, law enforcement agencies should have clear and comprehensive policies. Write an essay in which you address the information below.

• Identify three specific uses-of-force policies that could help provide for transparency within the criminal justice organization.
• Explain the expected impact of the policies in the community.
• Discuss how you, as a law enforcement leader, would communicate these policies to your personnel.
• Discuss the pros and cons of how the policies might influence an officer's behaviors and actions while on the job.
• Discuss the kind of training you think is required to ensure the policies are effective in lowering the number of excessive use-of-force incidents. Include your rationale for the selected training.

Your essay should begin with an introduction. It must be a minimum of two pages in length, not counting the title page and references page. A minimum of two sources should be used to support your essay, and they must be properly cited. Your essay, including all references, should be formatted in APA Style.

 

MCJ5390 Unit IV Essay

Instructions

There are three parts to this essay assignment. For the first part, click here to access the organizational chart for California's Department of Corrections (DOC) and Rehabilitation.

Second, review the organizational charts on pp. 251, 252, 267, and 272 of your textbook (Tables 10-1, 10-2, 10-4, and 10-6). In essay format, compare and contrast the organizational chart examples from the textbook and the organizational chart for California's DOC by addressing the areas listed below.

• How might the differences in models contribute to each agency's overall organizational effectiveness?
• Argue the value of having numerous organizational models for corrections as opposed to having a universal organizational model.
• Consider what you have learned about the roles and functions of corrections personnel. How might the roles and functions of corrections personnel vary given differing organizational structures? Give specific examples.

For the third and final part of this essay assignment, address the questions below.

• If you had to choose an organizational structure for corrections that would be universally applied in the United States, regardless of demographic, population, or location, which would you choose for maximum organizational effectiveness, and why? What specific factors do you believe would lead to greater organizational effectiveness?

HED310 Reading Response 5

Social Capital Theory is rooted in the affirmative action challenges of the 1960s. Explain this and make a connection between the use of Social Capital Theory in public health today.

HED310 Discussion 2

Please address the following after you have read over your reading for the week:

1. Please explain the process involved in the appraisal processes affecting behavior change.

2. Differentiate threat appraisal and coping appraisal(I need more than just a definition of each).

HED310 Discussion 1

1. Differentiate between a theory and a model.

2. What purpose do theories and models serve?

3. What are three types of theories expressed in the text? Explain each.

4. Please discuss three factors that might influence health behavior (by discuss I mean how does each impact an individual's behavior).

 

HED310 Assignment 3

Please complete the following using complete sentences. Your work should be your own work in your own words. Please make certain that you are providing citations for all material. Each question is worth 25 possible points.

1. Please read the following article found on page 151 in your course text and respond to the corresponding questions:

Determinants of skin cancer preventive behaviors among rural farmers in Iran: an application of protection motivation theory.

A. Briefly in no less than 250 words explain the article.

B. Based on your reading of the article please explain how threatening farmers perceive skin cancer.

C. Based on your reading of the article please discuss the farm's views on the severity/seriousness of skin cancer, their own vulnerability to skin cancer, and the rewards associated with their behavior.

D. Utilizing the PMT constructs of threats and coping appraisal, please discuss suggestions the authors made regarding the focus of interventions to reduce skin cancer prevalence.

 

2. Please read the following article found on page 180 in your course text and respond to the corresponding questions:

Reducing bullying; application of social cognitive theory.

A. Briefly in no less than 250 words explain the article.

B. Using constructs of the Social Cognitive Theory, explain how bullying is a learned behavior.

C. Using the concept of reciprocal determinism as the basis for your discussion, please explain the environmental and personal factors that contribute to bullying behaviors.

D. What suggestions do the authors offer when developing an effective bullying intervention?

 

HED310 Assignment 2

1. Explain attribution theory in your own words

2. Discuss the constructs of internal and external locus of control (this does not mean simply define each term. I expect discussion of the terms).

3. Explain controllability and stability in your own words (this does not mean simply define each term. I expect discussion of the terms).

4. Utilizing the MUW library database, please locate article in which attribution theory was utilized. Once you have located an article, please provide the following information:

a) Provide the APA citation of the article.

b) Provide a brief four (4) sentence summary of the article in your own words.

c) Discuss how the attribution theory was utilized in the study.

 

5. Utilizing the MUW library database, please locate article in which the Health Belief Model was utilized. Once you have located an article, please provide the following information:

a) Provide the APA citation of the article.

b) Provide a brief four (4) sentence summary of the article in your own words.

c) Discuss how the Health Belief Model was utilized in the study.