3-1 Final Project Milestone Two: Agency Needs Assessment

CJ 480 Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric

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. SNHU’s Shapiro Library should be used to assist in your research.

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. Remember to consult the Capstone Project Template for more guidance on the components of your capstone project.

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 agency’s 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 agency’s 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 agency’s website and the agency‘s 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?

Rubric

Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a 5- to 8-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.

Note: The “Possible Indicators of Success” in the rubric below are examples for you and your instructor of the types of concepts to look for in demonstrating proficiency. They are neither exhaustive nor prescriptive and should be used as guides for methods of illustrating how your capstone embodies the outcome. In the milestone, you will be assessed on your progress towards meeting all of the course outcomes with this rubric. If you are making progress towards meeting the course outcome, you will receive “In Progress”, if your submission does not show progress towards the course outcome, you will receive “Does Not Meet Expectations”. Incorporate feedback from your instructor to help better meet each course outcome in your final submission.

The final capstone submission will assess students’ proficiency in the course outcomes. The milestone submissions demonstrate whether students are making progress toward meeting the outcomes.

Students will receive “In Progress” if they are making progress toward the course outcome.

Value

CJ-480-01: Apply various criminological theories of human behavior to the analysis of crime causation, including biological, sociological, and psychological factors and influences

Meets Expectations

100%

In Progress 75%

Does Not Meet Expectations

0%

15

Feedback on progress toward outcome proficiency:

Possible Indicators of Success Does the capstone demonstrate the student’s ability to integrate theory of human behavior in the analysis of a community issue? Does the capstone demonstrate the student’s ability to evaluate the impact of human behavior on an identified problem? Does the capstone demonstrate the student’s ability to understand potential biological, sociological, or psychological factors that impact the issue?

CJ-480-02: Apply principles of criminal law to promote ethical policing strategies and protect the rights and freedoms of citizens

Meets Expectations

100%

In Progress 75%

Does Not Meet Expectations

0%

15

Feedback on progress toward outcome proficiency:

Possible Indicators of Success Does the capstone demonstrate the student’s ability to anticipate ethical dilemmas that could arise in addressing a community need? Does the capstone demonstrate the student’s ability to evaluate laws or regulations for their impact on a specific issue? CJ-480-03: Apply criminological scientific methods of inquiry to arrive at reasoned decisions regarding professional practice, problem-solving, sound operational decisions, and critical evaluation

Meets Expectations

100%

In Progress 75%

Does Not Meet Expectations

0%

15

Feedback on progress toward outcome proficiency:

Possible Indicators of Success that may be evident in the student’s final submission: Does the capstone demonstrate the student’s ability to apply scientific methods of inquiry to their decision-making process? Does the capstone demonstrate the student’s ability to utilize appropriate methodology for collecting data? Does the capstone demonstrate the student’s ability to critically evaluate an agency’s need utilizing the scientific method? Does the capstone demonstrate the student’s ability to professionally communicate with stakeholders for the purposes of gathering information? CJ-480-04: Analyze how organizational culture, behavioral theory, planning and community relations impact and inform criminal justice leadership strategies and practice

Meets Expectations

100%

In Progress 75%

Does Not Meet Expectations

0%

15

Feedback on progress toward outcome proficiency:

Possible Indicators of Success that may be evident in the student’s final submission: Does the capstone demonstrate the student’s ability to analyze the impact of organizational culture and behavior when addressing a community issue? Does the capstone demonstrate the student’s ability to evaluate how steps taken by an agency to address a community issue impact relations with that community?

Does the capstone demonstrate the student’s ability to identify appropriate leadership strategies for addressing a community issue? CJ-480-05: Evaluate the impact of emerging technologies on the investigation of crime, as a tool for criminal enterprise, investigation, and on the operations of criminal justice agencies

Meets Expectations

100%

In Progress 75%

Does Not Meet Expectations

0%

15

Feedback on progress toward outcome proficiency:

Possible Indicators of Success that may be evident in the student’s final submission:

Does the capstone demonstrate the student’s ability to identify technologies that could be used in addressing a community issue? Does the capstone demonstrate the student’s ability to assess the impact of technologies on a community issue? Does the capstone demonstrate the student’s ability to evaluate the role of technology for the effective implementation of recommendations that address a community issue? CJ-480-06: Evaluate transnational criminal enterprises and the impact globalization of crime has upon policing in the United States

Meets Expectations

100%

In Progress 75%

Does Not Meet Expectations

0%

15

Feedback on progress toward outcome proficiency:

Possible Indicators of Success that may be evident in the student’s final submission: Does the capstone demonstrate the student’s ability to consider the impact of globalization when addressing a community issue? Does the capstone demonstrate the student’s ability to analyze the relationship between community and national or international issues? Articulation of Response Meets Expectations

100% In Progress

75% Does Not Meet

Expectations 0%

10

Feedback on Articulation of Response:

Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization