1. Welcome to Class !!!
CJ340 – Applied Criminal Justice Ethics Kaplan University

2. Classroom Reading Character & Cops – 5th Edition
By Edwin J. Delattre
Does Everyone Have the Book??
Please read the book – it is an easy read
Other Readings & Viewings
Various Unit Web Links, Web Field Trips and Unit Articles

3. Classroom Welcome – The class consists of: Seminars Quizzes Projects
Discussion Boards
NWS Discussion Board Question
Mid-Term & Final Essays
Please Meet Due Dates

4. Classroom Advice Get Ahead on your Readings…. Meet Deadlines…..
Proofreading….
Use the KU Writing Center
Use the APA Format on your papers
Communicate

5. Classroom Advice Syllabus ~ Follow along to keep track
Announcements ~ Please read them!!
Please Introduce Yourself ~ See Unit #1

6. Classroom Advice Quizzes – You can work thru them….
Participation – Throughout….
Seminars, Discussion Posts, etc….
Prefer the Main Discussion Post is completed by each Sunday….
This allows your classmates to respond….
Please Communicate….

7. Weekly Seminars Class is each ThursdayEvening at 9pm (ET)
Attendance required
Participation is key for a good score in class!
Be considerate of your fellow students.
Be prepared from your readings
Be professional in all your comments
Stay on task or the topic
Alternative Assignment

8. Unit Quizzes Unit Quizzes Class Projects Weeks 2 ~ 6 ~ 8 Mid Term Exam
Final Exam
Week 9

9. Class Projects Read and Follow directions Plagiarism Turnitin.com
Content / page count does not include title and resource pages. Page count is narrative.
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Contact me with any questions
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10. Discussion Boards Requirement of 2-100+ word minimum Posts
There are two (2) per Unit
Weeks 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9
Please try to have initial posting completed/posted by each Sunday night by midnight – if you can.
This is done to have everyone get their posting done and your classmates will be able to respond to that posting as opposed to your initial & follow up postings being Tuesday night at 11:55 pm. That would not allow for much class interaction.
Post Early and Often !!!

11. Alternative Seminar Posting
NWS Discussion Post
Required if you do not attend the Weekly Seminar.
Must do ~ in addition to the weekly Discussion Board Posts
300 word minimum – 500 words. You will receive less points if you do not submit the minimum but no penalty for overwriting.
Make sure the posting is pertinent to the question of the week. Stay on point!!
Proper grammar, spelling, no typos etc must be the key.

12. Plagiarism ~ AKA Copying
Your Papers ~ Your DB’s ~ Your NWS
Zero Tolerance
No excuses
1st Time - Zero
2nd Time – “F” & Reported to Provost
Please – this IS an Ethics Class – Right?

13. Announcements Communication
Course Announcement postings s
Doc Sharing
Life’s Unexpected- Communicate
Grading
Office Hours

14. Welcome to Applied Criminal Justice Ethics
Kaplan University

15. Ethics
What is Ethics?
What is your Definition?

16. Ethics
Ethics is a Code of Values which Guides our Choices and Actions and Determines the Purpose and Course of our Lives.
Michael Josephson
Derived from Any Rand

17. Character Values are Primarily Caught Not Taught !!!
Agree or Disagree?

18. Character Teaching Child Fourth of July - Fireworks
Disney Vacation - Park Admission
Drivers Education

19. Character
It’s Okay Son…… Everybody Does It!!

20. Character
Individuals who have been exposed primarily to bad examples seldom develop good character.
True or False?

21. Character Examples: Domestic Violence Cycle Drug Abuse Alcoholism
Criminal Behavior

22. Character
How does ones character have influence on their law enforcement career?

23. Character - Police Why do Police Officers sometimes act unethically?
It is Race Problem - Human Race!!
They are human and are exposed to the same temptations and shortcomings as other human beings…….

24. Character - Police Are Police Held to a Higher Standard?
Should They Be?
Laws & Constitutions
L.E. Code of Ethics
Sworn Oath of Office
Whether we Agree/Disagree ~ Like it or Not - Police ARE Held to a Higher Standard.

25. Ethics in Public Service Higher Standards & Double Standards Edwin J
Ethics in Public Service Higher Standards & Double Standards Edwin J. Delattre
When a person voluntarily accepts a position of public trust, he takes on new obligations. If he does not want to live up to them, he is free to decline the job. Not only is this fair demand; granting authority without expecting public servants to live up to it would unfair to everyone they are expected to serve.
Raise the salaries if jobs merit higher pay but not in expectation of buying integrity. Nobody sells that. People who have it give it for free.

26. Mission of the Police Are Expectations of the Public to Much?
Solve my problem(s)
Get Johnny to go to school
Stop the speeders in my area - but not me
Why are you not out catching the real criminals?

27. Public Trust Community View of the Agency Good or Bad?
Do They Trust the Police?
Support the Police?

28. Public Trust Public Trust ~ Accountability
Citizens, having given up the right to enforce their rights, have made police work a public trust and expect that trust to be honored in the conduct of police business.

29. Public Trust ~ Trust/Restraint ~ Appropriate Level of Force
~ Trust/Corruption ~
Police Badge not used for Personal Gain

30. Police Discretion & Public Corruption
Next Week
Police Discretion & Public Corruption