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The discussion board and learning journal will make up your participation / activity grade. 100 points will be possible at midterm and again during finals week (50 points for discussion board and 50 points for learning journal).

Your assignment for Learning Unit 6 was to write a "futuristic view" or " predictive strategy" (2 - 3 pages) that provided a view of the future for corrections, law enforcement, or the judicial system. Your objective is to describe how the larger system or a specific agency will look in 2025. You should use the APA style of citation for any references used. If the idea(s) of the future are entirely yours, you must support them by evaluating and analyzing current trends and events that supports what your "prediction" is. Please avoid the use of the relevant publication for this chapter. It was required reading to provide you an idea of this assignment. In developing your paper you should consider how the contextual themes of today might apply in 2025 and also if a new contextual theme will evolve and if so, what might it be?

The reading assignment for Learning Unit #3 was an article by Katz and Kahn, Organizations and the System Concept. As you know from your reading, Katz and Kahn discussed 9 common characteristics of open systems. Their discussion is a bit difficult to appreciate until examples are attached to some of the characteristics. Your assignment is to list examples from your personal experience, observations, or other sources that clearly demonstrate the following common characteristics of a police, correctional, and judicial organizations: inputs from the environment throughput functions outputs to the envirornment

Max Weber identified several principles of a bureaucracy. Using several quotes from Learning Unit Two's relevant publication show how Weber advocated for each of the following: A formal hierarchical structure Management by rules Organization by functional specialty Employment based on technical qualifications

Read Woodrow Wilson's article and use several quotes from the relevant publication to support each of his concepts or reforms for public administrator. They are: Separation of politics and administration Comparative analysis of political and private organizations Improving efficiency with business-like practices and attitudes Improving the effectiveness of public service through management and by training civil servants, merit-based assessment, etc.

You are criminal justice administrator and have been tasked to present a training class to employees who have been identified by supervisors as employees who may be at risk of not following the ethical standards of the agency or those who have voiced strong opinion against equal employment guidelines, affirmative action procedures, or made inappropriate racial or ethnic comments. Your assignment is to present a convincing philosophy or argument to the employees so they will better understand why concepts of the social equity theme and the principles of a republic form of government are important to their work, their careers, and the community. In other words - why is social equity the right thing to do in a democratic republic? Your response should be double spaced, at least two pages in length, and if references are used, APA style should be followed.