ethical reasoning 4
This Competency Assessment assesses the following outcome(s):
CJ340M2: Apply ethical reasoning by evaluating scenario-based, real-life ethical issues within the field of criminal justice.
GEL-1.03: Demonstrate college-level communication through the oral delivery of original materials in Standard English.
Scenario Analysis
You are a member of the training division at your law enforcement agency. The sergeant of the unit has asked that you create an informative voiceover PowerPoint® presentation that explains the normative and applied prevailing criminal justice models of ethical reasoning. This PowerPoint presentation will be played at all roll calls and shift briefing trainings for your department. The instruction set delivered to you indicates that (at a minimum) the PowerPoint should address the history, tenets, and applications of each of the theories. The presentation will assume the normative judgment model, which emphasized the three moral judgment imperatives (the human act, free will, effect upon others). This presentation requires an embedded audio recording that serves to explain the slides that are presented. A suggested outline for the slideshow is listed below.
- Title slide (required)
- The Ethics of Virtue (title slide)
- History of the Ethics of Virtue
- Tenets of the Ethics of Virtue
- Provide a criminal-justice-based, “real-world†example of the ethics of virtue
- Ethical Formalism (Deontological Ethics) (title slide)
- History of Ethical Formalism
- Model of Ethical Formalism
- Provide a criminal-justice-based, “real-world†application of Deontological ethics
- Consequentialism (Teleological Ethics) (title slide)
- History of Consequentialism
- Model of Consequentialism
- Provide a criminal-justice-based, “real-world†example of Utilitarianism
- Ethics of Care (Restorative Justice)
- History of the Ethics of Care
- Tenets of the Ethics of Care
- Provide a criminal-justice-based, “real-world†example of the Ethics of Care
- Where does the concept of Noble Cause corruption fit within the ethical models?
- Summary
- References slide (required)
Narration Guidelines:
- Maintain a persuasive tone by summarizing observations and evaluations for each slide.
- Ensure that your presentation is highly ordered, logical, and unified.
- Words should be clearly enunciated and professional tone should be sustained throughout the presentation narration.
- Microsoft Office. (2019). Record your screen in PowerPoint. Retrieved from https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Record-your-screen-in-PowerPoint-o0b4c3f65-534c-4cf19c59-402b6e9d79d0?wt.mc_id=otc_tips&ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US…
- Audio recording should be free of background noise and interruptions.
- Separate page that I will need to read for each page on the power point.
Minimum Submission Requirements
- This Assessment should be a Microsoft PowerPoint (minimum 12 slides) presentation, in addition to the title and reference slides.
- Respond to the topical content requirements (see assessment) in a thorough manner, providing specific examples of concepts, topics, definitions, and other elements asked for in the outlined ethical topics. Your submission should be highly organized, logical, and focused.
- Use the slide notes section in the presentation to include information that follows your narration, being sure to follow the conventions of Standard English.
- Slide content should include brief points that identify the areas that will be addressed in the narration.
- Your PowerPoint presentation should be well ordered, logical and unified, as well as original and insightful.
- The PowerPoint notes section(s) must be completed/included to augment the individual slides in the show.
- Your submission must be written in Standard English and demonstrate exceptional content, organization, style, and grammar and mechanics. Style components (pictures, SMART Art, standardized template, and hyperlinks) may be included (where appropriate).
- Your submission should provide a clearly established and sustained and persuasive viewpoint, as well as purpose.
- A separate slide at the end of your submission should contain a list of references, in APA format. Use your textbook, the Library, and the internet for research.
- Review the writing resources for APA formatting and citation found in Academic Tools. Additional writing resources can be found within the Academic Success Center.
If work submitted for this competency assessment does not meet the minimum submission requirements, it will be returned without being scored.