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It is widely known that utilizing paralegals is a frequent
concern for practicing attorneys, especially when a paralegal’s
actions may leave them performing tasks (e.g., advising on legal
rights, negotiation or settlement, management of a law practice,
etc.) which could result in the unauthorized practice of law. Per
the American Bar Association, one must possess a law license
in order to perform such tasks.
Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:
1. Determine three (3) most important characteristics of an
effective paralegal. Justify your response.
2. Develop at least three (3) general guidelines for conducting
legal research that a new paralegal should follow on in order to
ensure that the attorney for whom the paralegal works is
referencing valid laws within his / her legal documents.
3. Propose two (2) strategies that a paralegal could take in order
to avoid the unauthorized practice of law. Provide a rationale to
support your response.
4. Compare and contrast the key differences between the
activities of paralegals versus those of attorneys in preparing a
case for trial.
5. Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and
other Websites do not quality as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
. Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size
12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references
must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your
professor for any additional instructions.
. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the
student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the
date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in
the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this
assignment are:

. Analyze what paralegals do, the career choices available to
paralegals, their role in the legal profession, and the need for
continuing education and training.
. Examine the paralegal workplace, tasks, and functions of a
paralegal and accounting procedures in the law office.
. Use technology and information resources to research issues in
paralegal studies.
. Write clearly and concisely about paralegal studies using
proper writing mechanics.
BCJ 2001, Theory and Practices of Law Enforcement 1
Course Description
Presents the historical development of law enforcement,
organization, administration, and systems of local, state, and
federal policing with an emphasis on theories as they relate to
practices.
Course Textbook
Dempsey, J. S., & Forst, L. S. (2011). Police. Clifton Park, NY:
Delmar.
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

1. Analyze and discuss conventional crimes, as well as
economic crimes, from historic and contemporary
viewpoints.
2. Assess and describe the growing menace of syndicated crime
and the changes that are currently taking
place in these organizations. Explain the social process from
which the definition is derived and why the
definition of crime is relative.
3. Explain why the study of criminal procedure requires the
balancing of society’s need for law and order
against the individual’s right to due process.
4. Evaluate typical selection process and training received by
local police and sheriff recruits.
5. Explain the evolution of policing in the United States and
how this affects patrol operations.
6. Explain professionalism, education, employment of
minorities, the use of deadly force, and the
partnership of private security and law enforcement agencies.
7. Explain pretrial procedures such as bail, pretrial hearings,
and plea bargaining, and their importance to
the criminal justice system as a whole.
8. Analyze and discuss the adversary process of the criminal
trial and why there is a need to follow a set of
formal rules. List examples of these rules.
9. Compare and contrast the theories of punishment in the
American criminal justice system.
10. Assess sentencing, traditional sentencing disparities, and the
appeal process.

11. Explain the death penalty and describe the appeals process
and debate that surround the death penalty.
12. Summarize maximum, medium, and minimum security
prisons and the institutional programs associated
with each.
13. Explain the special problems of correctional institutions in
relation to women, gangs, sexuality, and elderly
male inmates.
14. Assess probation, parole, and community based corrections
and how they relate to the criminal justice
system.
15. Analyze the juvenile justice system in the United States and
the various programs that relate to juvenile
justice.
16. Analyze and describe the emerging drug trends and how this
affects crime and the criminal justice
system.
Credits
Upon completion of this course, the students will earn three (3)
hours of college credit.
BCJ 2001, Theory and Practices of
Law Enforcement
Course Syllabus

Course Structure
1. Unit Learning Outcomes: Each unit contains Learning
Outcomes that specify the measurable skills
and knowledge students should gain upon completion of the
unit.
2. Unit Lesson: Each unit contains a Unit Lesson, which
discusses unit material.
3. Reading Assignments: Each unit contains Reading
Assignments from one or more chapters from
the textbook.
4. Key Terms: Key Terms are intended to guide students in their
course of study. Students should pay
particular attention to Key Terms as they represent important
concepts within the unit material and
reading.
5. Discussion Boards: Discussion Boards are a part of all CSU
term courses. Information and
specifications regarding these assignments are provided in the
Academic Policies listed in the Course
Menu bar.
6. Unit Assessments: This course contains seven Unit
Assessments, one to be completed at the end
of Units I, II, III, IV, VI, VII and VIII. Assessments are
composed of multiple-choice questions and

written response questions.
7. Unit Assignments: Students are required to submit for
grading Unit Assignments in Units II, III, V,
and VI. Specific information and instructions regarding these
assignments are provided below.
Grading rubrics are included with each Assignment. Specific
information about accessing these
rubrics is provided below
8. Final Exam (Proctored): Students are to complete a Final
Exam in Unit VIII. All final exams are
proctored–see below for additional information. You are
permitted four (4) hours to complete this
exam, in the presence of your approved proctor. This is an open
book exam. Only course textbooks
and a calculator, if necessary, are allowed when taking
proctored exams.
9. Ask the Professor: This communication forum provides you
with an opportunity to ask your
professor general or course content related questions.
10. Student Break Room: This communication forum allows for
casual conversation with your
classmates
CSU Online Library
There is a virtual library with resources, including both journals
and ebooks, to support your program and your course at
Columbia Southern University. eResources are accessible 24
hours a day/7 days a week from the CSU Online Library
gateway page. To access the library, log into myCSU, and then
click on CSU Online Library. Resources are organized in

the library by title, but if you click on Research Guides, you
will find eResources arranged by subject.
The Library Reference service is available 7 days a week; you
can reach CSU’s virtual librarians by e-mailing
[email protected] These professional librarians will be glad to
help you develop your research
plan or to assist you in any way in finding relevant, appropriate,
and timely information.
Librarian responses may occur within minutes or hours, but it
will never take more than 24 hours for a librarian to send a
response to the e-mail address you have provided. Replies to
reference requests may include customized keyword
search strategies, links to videos, research guides, screen
captures, attachments, a phone call, live screen sharing, and
meeting room appointments, as well as other forms of
instruction.
Unit Assignments
Unit II PowerPoint Presentation
In this unit, various topics were discussed, including the hiring
of officers. This assignment provides you with an
opportunity to further explore this topic by creating a
PowerPoint presentation. As the Human Resources manager for
a
police department, you have been asked by the police chief to
create a proposal in order to hire additional officers for the
department. To complete this assignment, you will want to
include information from five (5) categories such as community
information, the current organization, the marketing strategy,
prospective officer job requirements, and the selection

process.
More details are provided for these categories below:
1. Community Information: In this section you will want to
include the size and location of the community, and any
major issues.
mailto:[email protected]
2. The Current Organization: Prospective officers will want to
know the current number of officers, the number of
officers that the department would like to hire, and the function,
purpose, and goals of the department.
3. Marketing Strategy: In this section you will want to provide
at least three sources which will post the
advertisement and why these were selected. Also, include why
this selection is important.
4. Job Requirements: Select at least three of the following.
Provide an overview including a description of the
requirement and why it is important (at least 3 sentences).
a. Education
b. Age
c. Criminal record restrictions
d. Physical requirements
e. Prior drug history
5. The Selection Process: Select at least four of the following.
Provide an overview about the process and why it is

important (at least 3 sentences).
a. Written entrance exam
b. Physical agility test
c. Polygraph examination
d. Oral interview
e. Background investigation
f. Medical examination
g. Psychological appraisal
The completed PowerPoint presentation should be at least 10
slides. Be sure to provide in-text citations and a reference
slide with proper APA formatting. The cover and reference
slides do not contribute to the slide count. You may also use
the slide notes function to explain slide content as necessary.
Presentations will be submitted for electronic evaluation to
determine any possible academic integrity violations. The
Academic Integrity Policy is available through the myCSU
portal and through this course. Students are encouraged to
contact the Success Center at [email protected], which is a
valuable resource available to assist with
academic writing and APA formatting.
Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for
this assignment is provided below.
Unit III Article Review
In this lesson police corruption and police ethics are discussed.
This assignment provides you with an opportunity to
further explore one of these topics by reviewing an article on
this matter. Through the CSU Online Library, locate one
article from a professional journal. This article should be no
more than four (4) years old and at least three (3) pages in
length. Topics may be any of the following:

policies and procedures, training, supervision,
organizational culture, or early warning systems
If you are unsure if the article selected meets these
requirements, please contact your professor. The purpose of an
article review is to let other readers know what the work is
about so that they may decide whether they want to read the
work. Other readers probably have not read the article, so the
review should not only describe the work, but also evaluate
it. Include each of the following within your article review:
1. An introduction to the article
2. The key points from the article
3. A summary of the article’s conclusion
4. An evaluation of the article, to include:
a. Why is this article important?
b. Should others read it?
c. Was the article well-written (organized, easy to understand,
etc.)?
d. What is your perspective and opinion on the article?
The completed article review has to be a minimum of three (3)
full pages in length, not including the title page, abstract,
and reference page. The article review should be written in
paragraph format. This article review requires APA style
formatting, including the citing of key points and material
utilizing in-text citations and references.

Before beginning, students should review the sample APA paper
located in the myCSU portal. Papers will be submitted
for electronic evaluation to determine any possible academic
integrity violations. The Academic Integrity Policy is available
through the myCSU portal and through this course. Students are
encouraged to contact the Success Center at
[email protected], which is a valuable resource available to
assist with academic writing and APA
formatting.
Unit V Case Study
In order to prepare for this case study, you will need to review
Chapter 13, “Police and the Law” in your textbook. Analyze
and explain the use of the Exclusionary Rule by the Supreme
Court of the United States. Define how the Exclusionary
Rule has affected the use of evidence acquired from police
search and seizure cases. Compare and contrast each of the
following cases and the effects that the ruling decision by the
Supreme Court has had on evidence obtained from police
search and seizure. What constitutes a reasonable search? How
is search and seizure governed by the
Fourth Amendment? How do you feel that the police could
have completed their searches in these cases more
efficiently?

Prepare your case study on the following three cases:
– Exclusionary rule applied to
federal law enforcement agencies
– Exclusionary rule applied to all
cases involving extreme police misconduct
– Exclusionary rule applied to all law
enforcement agencies (local, state, and federal)
The completed assignment must be a minimum of five pages in
length, not including the title page and reference list. You
must include at least 5 references. The entire case study
assignment must be written following APA style guidelines.
Therefore, the APA rules for formatting, quoting, paraphrasing,
citing, and listing of sources are to be followed.
Unit VI Article Review
In previous units various topics were discussed including police
and private security partnerships, police professionalism
and stress, the hiring of officers, and types of crime. This
assignment provides you with an opportunity to further explore
one of these topics by reviewing an article.
Through the CSU Online Library, locate one article from a
professional journal. This article should be no more than four
(4) years old and at least three (3) pages in length. Topics may
be any of the following:

qualifications, criminal history, or challenges
policies and procedures, training, supervision,
organizational culture, or early warning systems
current examples
current examples
If you are unsure if the article selected meets these
requirements, please contact your professor. The purpose of an
article review is to let other readers know what the work is
about so that they may decide whether they want to read the
work. Other readers probably have not read the article, so the
review should not only describe the work, but also evaluate
it.
Include each of the following within your article review:
1. An introduction to the article
2. The key points from the article
3. A summary of the article’s conclusion
4. An evaluation of the article, to include:
a. Why is this article important?
b. Should others read it?
c. Was the article well-written (organized, easy to understand,

etc.)?
d. What is your perspective and opinion on the article?
This completed article review is to be a minimum of three (3)
full pages in length, not including the title page, abstract, and
reference page. The article review should be written in
paragraph format. This article review requires APA style
formatting, including the citing of key points and material
utilizing in-text citations and references. Before beginning,
students should review the sample APA paper located in the
myCSU portal.
Papers will be submitted for electronic evaluation to determine
any possible academic integrity violations. The Academic
Integrity Policy is available through the myCSU portal and
through this course. Students are encouraged to contact the
Success Center at [email protected], which is a valuable
resource available to assist with academic
writing and APA formatting.
APA Guidelines
CSU requires that students use the APA style for papers and

projects. Therefore, the APA rules for formatting, quoting,
paraphrasing, citing, and listing of sources are to be followed.
A document titled “APA Guide” is available for you to
download from the APA Guide link, found in the Learning
Resources area of the myCSU Student Portal. It may also be
accessed from the Student Resources link on the Course Menu.
This document includes examples and sample papers
and provides links to The CSU Success Center and the CSU
Online Library staff.
Blackboard Grading Rubrics
Assignment Rubrics
One or more assignments in this course utilizes a Blackboard
Grading Rubric. A rubric is a tool that lists evaluation criteria
and can help you organize your efforts to meet the requirements
of an assignment. Your professor will use the Blackboard
Grading Rubric to assign points and provide feedback for the
assignment.
You are encouraged to view the assignment rubric before
submitting your work. This will allow you to review the
evaluation criteria as you prepare your assignments. You may
access the rubric in “My Grades” through the “Tools” button
in your course menu. Click the “View Rubric” link to see the
evaluation criteria for the assignment. Upon receiving your
assignment grade, you may view your grade breakdown and
feedback in the rubric.
CSU Grading Rubrics for Papers/Projects, Discussion Boards,
and Assessments

The Learning Resource area of the myCSU Student Portal
provides the rubrics, and information on how to use them, for
Discussion Boards, written response questions in Unit
Assessments, and Research Papers/Projects.
The course writing assignments will be graded based on the
CSU Grading Rubric for all types of writing assignments,
unless otherwise specified within assignment instructions. In
addition, all papers will be submitted for electronic evaluation
to rule out plagiarism. Course projects will contain project
specific grading criteria defined in the project directions.
To view the rubrics, click the Academic Policies link on the
Course Menu, or access it through the CSU Grading Rubric
link found in the Learning Resources area of the myCSU
Student Portal.
Final Examination Guidelines
Final Exams are to be administered to students by an approved
Proctor. CSU approves two, flexible proctoring options: a
standard Proctor, who is chosen by the student and approved by
the university, or Remote Proctor Now (RP Now), an on-
demand, third-party testing service that proctors examinations
for a small fee.
A standard Proctor is an unbiased, qualified individual who is
selected by the student and agrees to supervise an
examination. You are responsible for selecting a qualified
Proctor, and the Proctor must be pre-approved by CSU.
Students choosing RP Now must have an operational
webcam/video with audio, a high-speed internet connection, and

the appropriate system rights required to download and install
software.
To review the complete Examination Proctor Policy, including a
list of acceptable Proctors, Proctor responsibilities,
Proctor approval procedures, and the Proctor Agreement Form,
go to the myCSU Student Portal from the link below.
http://mycsu.columbiasouthern.edu
You are permitted four (4) hours to complete this exam, in the
presence of your approved Proctor. This is an open book
exam. You may use only your textbook as source material for
your response. All source material must be referenced
(paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying
citations). You may use the Publication Manual of the
American Psychological Association (APA Style Guide) or the
CSU Citation Guide for reference.
Communication Forums
These are non-graded discussion forums that allow you to
communicate with your professor and other students.
Participation in these discussion forums is encouraged, but not
required. You can access these forums with the buttons in
the Course Menu. Instructions for subscribing/unsubscribing to
these forums are provided below.

Click here for instructions on how to subscribe/unsubscribe and
post to the Communication Forums.
Ask the Professor
This communication forum provides you with an opportunity to
ask your professor general or course content questions.
Questions may focus on Blackboard locations of online course
components, textbook or course content elaboration,
additional guidance on assessment requirements, or general
advice from other students.
Questions that are specific in nature, such as inquiries regarding
assessment/assignment grades or personal
accommodation requests, are NOT to be posted on this forum. If
you have questions, comments, or concerns of a non-
public nature, please feel free to email your professor.
Responses to your post will be addressed or emailed by the
professor within 48 hours.
Before posting, please ensure that you have read all relevant
course documentation, including the syllabus,
assessment/assignment instructions, faculty feedback, and other
important information.
Student Break Room
This communication forum allows for casual conversation with
your classmates. Communication on this forum should
always maintain a standard of appropriateness and respect for
your fellow classmates. This forum should NOT be used to
share assessment answers.
Grading

Discussion Boards (8 @ 2%) = 16%
Unit Assessments (7 @ 6%) = 42%
Unit II PowerPoint Presentation = 8%
Article Reviews (2 @ 8%) = 16%
Unit V Case Study = 8%
Unit VIII Final Exam = 10%
Total = 100%
Course Schedule/Checklist (PLEASE PRINT)
The following pages contain a printable Course Schedule to
assist you through this course. By following this schedule,
you will be assured that you will complete the course within the
time allotted.
http://mycsu.columbiasouthern.edu/
https://online.columbiasouthern.edu/CSU_Content/common_file
s/instructions/DB/Create_New_Thread_Subscribe.pdf
BCJ 2001, Theory and Practices of Law Enforcement Course
Schedule
By following this schedule, you will be assured that you will
complete the course within the time allotted. Please keep this
schedule for reference as you progress through your course.

Unit I The History of Police and Security in the United States
Read:
Discuss:
Response: Submit your response to the
Discussion Board question by
Saturday, Midnight (Central Time)
Notes/Goals:
Unit II Organizing the Police Department
y Guide
Read:
Discuss:

ard Comment: Comment on another student’s
Discussion Board response by
Tuesday, Midnight (Central Time)
Submit:
Time)
Notes/Goals:
Unit III Police Roles, Ethics and Discretion
Read:
Discuss:
bmit your response to the

Submit:
(Central Time)
Notes/Goals:
Schedule
Unit IV Patrol Operations and Investigations
Read:

Discuss:
Discussion Board Comment: Comment on another student’s
Notes/Goals:
Unit V Police and the Law – A Case Study
Review
Discuss:

Notes/Goals:
Unit VI Community Policing – Cultures, Personalities, and
Stress
Read:
Chapter 6: Police Culture, Personality, and Police Stress
Discuss:
Submit:

Notes/Goals:
Schedule
Unit VII New Strategies in Policing: Computers, Technology,
and Criminalistics
Guide
Read:
Policing
Discuss:

Submit:
Notes/Goals:
Unit VIII Homeland Security
Read:
-VII
Discuss:
Submit:
Time)

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