As with law enforcement and court personnel, corrections and probation and parole officers are held to a high ethical standard. Corrections and probation and parole agencies must be diligent in their...

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As with law enforcement and court personnel, corrections and probation and parole officers are held to a high ethical standard. Corrections and probation and parole agencies must be diligent in their efforts to address acts of malfeasance. You are assigned to a conduct review board at your agency. The head of your department has instructed each of you to collaborate to review three officers’ conduct issues. As a group, you must determine if the conduct engaged in by each of the officers in the scenario is ethical or unethical. Following the determination, you must designate a committee decision and outcome for the officer- involved incident. Each of the officers involved have agreed to a committee review of their action set and will abide by the committee’s findings. Please follow the action steps that follow to guide the committee’s recommendation: 1. Determine the incident’s classification: 1. No misconduct 2. Misconduct but excusable 3. Minor misconduct 4. Intentional misconduct 5. Major misconduct (conduct unbecoming an officer) 2. Justify the classification. The designations are progressive in their level of malfeasance. Your rationale should be well detailed and supported. Use the textbook and other credible outside research sources to support your rationale. All components of the events and actions are to be examined and evaluated. 3. Make a recommendation regarding officer discipline or lack thereof and justify the punishment by explaining the committee’s findings and their reasoning for recommending the discipline. Use the matrix below to assist in the assignment of consequence:   No misconduct — No punishment Misconduct but excusable — May include a 1-year counseling letter in the officer’s personnel file. Retraining may be required. Minor misconduct — 1- to 5-year discipline letter in officer’s personnel file. 1- to 6-month suspension from specialty assignment (SWAT, detectives, marine unit, honor guard, field training officer, etc.). Includes loss of specialty pay for the assignment. Retraining may be required. Intentional misconduct — Suspension for up to 30 days without pay. Reassignment from specialty unit (SWAT, detectives, marine unit, honor guard, field training officer, etc.). Demotion from rank to former rank (i.e., corporal to officer, sergeant to officer, lieutenant to sergeant). Permanent discipline letter in officer’s personnel file. Training mandated. Major misconduct (conduct unbecoming an officer) — Suspension for up to 1 year unpaid. Last chance agreement letter (states that any similar misconduct will result in immediate termination) or termination. 4. Evaluate what type of corruption is presented in each of the incidents (noble cause, structural or affiliation hypothesis, rotten apples/rotten barrels, and /or “slippery slope”). Recommend strategies to control this type of corruption and also ways and means to prevent further instances. How could the agency avoid this behavior (training, policy and procedure, greater supervision, support of “whistleblowers”)?  This is a group assignment wherein each team member must participate equally. Regular meetings should be conducted to analyze each of the incidents and make recommendations regarding the finding and recommended punishments. Your final essay should thoroughly document the committee’s (group’s) finding and associated recommendation set. This essay should be 3–5 pages in length and use at least two credible outside research sources, including academic journals, to support your view. ScenariScenario 2: Video Shows Cuyahoga County Jail Officer Pummel Mentally-Ill Inmate After Turning Off Body Camera Scenario 3: Probation Officer Accused of Secretly Recording Teen Who Was House Sitting Scenario 1: Corrections Office Accused of Improper Conduct With Inmate
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Answer To: As with law enforcement and court personnel, corrections and probation and parole officers are held...

Abhishek answered on Jun 28 2021
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Running Head: LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSIGNMENT                    1
LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSIGNMENT                             2
LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSIGNMENT
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Answer to Question 1    3
Incident Classification: Scenario 1    3
Incident Classification: Scenario 2    3
Incident Classification: Scenario 3    3
Answer to Question 2    3
References    5
Answer to Question 1
Incident Classification: Scenario 1
The correction officer has improperly conducted interactions with the inmate. In this case, this misconduct is considered major where there will be no excuse and has been intentionally made.
Incident Classification: Scenario 2
A person who has been suffering from undiagnosed mental illness being hampered by the jail officer whose body has been flipped for turning off the camera. The violation of the civil right of jail inmates is a brutal act and is required to be treated properly. This is a major misconduct, which is not unintentional. For this purpose, one year of unpaid suspension is provided to the person.
Incident Classification: Scenario 3
The teen has been recorded secretly by the probation officer, a serious issue of pornography and voyeurism, for secretly recording a minor in the neighbourhood. This is a serious threat to the responsibilities that should be on the officers.
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