Put Into Practice: Applied Decision-Making Exercise
Student Instructions
This assignment requires you to apply course concepts to a fictional but realistic scenario drawn from the chapter topic. You are expected to move beyond summary and demonstrate applied reasoning, professional judgment, and analytical depth.
Read the vignette carefully and respond to all prompts using the role assigned. Your response should reflect how criminal justice decisions are made in practice, not simply how they are described in theory.
In your response, you should:
- Address each question posed in the assignment.
- Clearly explain your reasoning and decision-making process.
- Support your discussion with relevant course concepts.
- Write in a professional academic tone with clear organization.
Depth of reasoning and clarity of justification matter more than length.
Put into Practice Assignment
Imagine that you are a probation officer interviewing a person just sentenced to probation for commercial burglary. You invest significant time getting to know this individual and understanding his criminal history, current personal and social situation, and future goals. During the interaction, you mentally register several concerns about his criminal thinking; he justifies his crime by saying that his victim was a business, he did not hurt anyone, and does not see the problem with what he did. You also are worried about his living situation, which you see as problematic because he is residing very near the location of that break-in. But as part of your assessment process, you input some of this information into your departments risk and need tool and are surprised that the assessment indicates he is low risk. As a result, you are supposed to supervise him according to a protocol that requires reduced interactions between the two of you (meet every other month). But you believe that you need to be more involved in his situation than that (have biweekly meetings).
- How would you discuss the results of the risk and need assessment with him?
- Would your supervision plan align more with the risk and need assessment outcome or your own professional judgment?
- Why did you decide to supervise him in that manner?
- What are the potential benefits and drawbacks resulting from that decision for you, him, and your department?Perspectives on Community-Based Corrections ISBN: 9780197607336 Authors: Justin C. Medina, Jillian L. Eidson Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication Date: 2024-01-01
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