Assignment #1: Identifying the Challenge due Week 3: &

Assignment #1: Identifying the Challenge due Week 3: For your senior project, choose one of the following major criminal justice areas: law enforcement, prisons/corrections, the courts, Homeland Security, private security, or emergency management. This component will serve as the area for which your senior project will be based. Next, identify a challenge or area of improvement within your chosen area. (For example, one may choose corrections as the topic area and violence in prisons as the problem). Over the weeks of this course, you will progressively research, learn about, write and present on a solution to the challenge or area of improvement from both a tactical and administrative perspective. Receive approval from your professor on your chosen topic. Additional project expectations are described in week 8.

Prepare a 2-3 page paper answering the following:

Outline the context of the problem or challenge, including the history and any policy decisions that have contributed to the situation. Why is it important that the problem be addressed, who is impacted internally and externally? Why do you feel the problem hasn’t already been solved?

•This paper must adhere to APA style standards including the following: Double space, 1” margins, title page, in text citation references, and a reference page.

Assignment #2: Internal and External Stakeholders: Considering your chosen topic, how have internal or external stakeholders influenced the situation in a positive or negative way? How will you consider stakeholders in your solution to the problem? How will you motivate individuals to buy into your solution?

Prepare a 3 – 4 page paper that covers the above topics related to stakeholders.

•This paper must adhere to APA style standards including the following: Double space, 1” margins, title page, in text citation references, and a reference page.

Grading Rubric:

1. All stakeholders and their roles are clearly identified early in paper.

2. All reasons are strong. Solid support for claim, articulating important positive or negative influences on stakeholders.

3. Alternative viewpoints identified very clearly. All important strengths and weaknesses in comparison to claim fully addressed. Counter argument to alternatives developed fully and shows that the paper’s claim is still valid.

4. Solid organization with strong introduction, helpful transitions, effective conclusion.