Ethical Violation Paper Homework

Locate a news story or press release about an ethical violation(s) resulting from actions of employees in the criminal justice system.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you include the following:

In what component of the criminal justice system does the criminal justice agency or individuals in question belong?
What is the reasoning for the criminal justice agency’s involvement and the timing of the news story or press release?
What is the role of the media and public opinion in the news story or press release?
What are the primary ethical styles or perspectives of the involved agency, along with the reported concerns or ethical violations identified in the report or release?
Key interest groups in relation to the ethical violation
Identify if the release was informative or persuasive, and whether or not it outlines the importance of ethics in the criminal justice system.
Discuss if there are obvious ways the ethical violation(s) could have been avoided.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.