Describe the content of the role of a probation officer. What are the norms and values associated with this work? Include those that can be regarded as legitimate, as well as those regarded as illegitimate. What are the sources of these norms and values? How do education, training, and the work experience influence them? How can you distinguish between corruption and official deviance in policing? What socialization processes support each of these? Design an in-service training program whose chief goal is to combat the organizational processes you describe. Describe how a culture of violence in high security prisons is perpetuated by the process of informal socialization. What steps could be taken by administrative personnel to address this issue? Could a training program be implemented? Would inmates be included in the process? Your job is to develop a program for training corrections officers for a special internal affairs unit. They will investigate problems of contraband and violence in prison while working as regular officers. Whom would you recruit, and how would you structure the process of training? What would the content of training be? What problems with the socialization process do you anticipate? above just answer the questions and below can you say why you agree on 2 and why you disagree on 2  respond to the post of at least one (1) student with whom you agree, making meaningful comment on the post explaining the strengths of the post's argument or the reason for agreement respond to the post of at least one (1) student with whom you disagree, making meaningful comment on the post explaining the weakness of the post's argument or the reason for disagreement.  An informal group is a group of people going against the rules, norms or values for example in the criminal justice organization. This may be hard for people to get away, but having a group like this within the criminal justice system could be very dangerous for the people and for the organization as a whole. This also goes along with corruption in this organization. While doing these things others are being kept quiet, but in an organization like this people need to be punished for violating the rules of the organization. Every employee needs to know and understand that if they disobey their rules that they will 100% be punished for it. The administrators cannot be lenient with one person, because then others will think that it is acceptable to do the same. I believe that employees that do things that affects the organization negatively should be fired no matter how small the issue is, because if they learn that they can get away with anything at all people will still continue to do it. Stopping the problem at the littlest one should help the organization and them portraying a picture to the other employees that no bad behavior is acceptable no matter the size. The term informal groups essentially refers to new members of a department who are socialized and confor.

1. Describe the content of the role of a probation officer. What are
the norms and values associated with this work? Include those
that can be regarded as legitimate, as well as those regarded as
illegitimate. What are the sources of these norms and values?
How do education, training, and the work experience influence
them?
How can you distinguish between corruption and official
deviance in policing? What socialization processes support each
of these? Design an in-service training program whose chief
goal is to combat the organizational processes you describe.
Describe how a culture of violence in high security prisons is
perpetuated by the process of informal socialization. What steps
could be taken by administrative personnel to address this
issue? Could a training program be implemented? Would
inmates be included in the process?
Your job is to develop a program for training corrections
officers for a special internal affairs unit. They will investigate
problems of contraband and violence in prison while working as
regular officers. Whom would you recruit, and how would you
structure the process of training? What would the content of
training be? What problems with the socialization process do
you anticipate?
above just answer the questions and below can you say why you
agree on 2 and why you disagree on 2
respond to the post of at least one (1) student with whom you
agree, making meaningful comment on the post explaining the
strengths of the post's argument or the reason for agreement
respond to the post of at least one (1) student with whom you
disagree, making meaningful comment on the post explaining

2. the weakness of the post's argument or the reason for
disagreement.
An informal group is a group of people going against the rules,
norms or values for example in the criminal justice
organization. This may be hard for people to get away, but
having a group like this within the criminal justice system could
be very dangerous for the people and for the organization as a
whole. This also goes along with corruption in this
organization. While doing these things others are being kept
quiet, but in an organization like this people need to be
punished for violating the rules of the organization. Every
employee needs to know and understand that if they disobey
their rules that they will 100% be punished for it. The
administrators cannot be lenient with one person, because then
others will think that it is acceptable to do the same. I believe
that employees that do things that affects the organization
negatively should be fired no matter how small the issue is,
because if they learn that they can get away with anything at all
people will still continue to do it. Stopping the problem at the
littlest one should help the organization and them portraying a
picture to the other employees that no bad behavior is
acceptable no matter the size.
The term informal groups essentially refers to new members of
a department who are socialized and conformed to the police
culture of their departments. An example in the book pertained
to police agencies who focused primarily on aggression in their
work. It led to explain that new officers brought into this
subculture typically learn this behavior by more seasoned
officers where the goal is to fit in with the culture of the
department. This kind of learning creates more of an impact
compared to formal groups as informal learning is day-to-day
interactions with ones peers and may occur unintentionally.

3. Unfortunately negative influences sometimes exist within
informal groups where the goal of each department should be to
eliminate those influences as much as possible.
A way which this can be accomplished is for the department
heads of administration to get involved. They can do this by
actively participating in new member training by advising how
the process is handled and setting the example for proper police
behavior. There should also be an emphasis in meetings placed
on officer behavior and if those rules are broken consistently
then there should be sanctions placed against the officer. In
essence, negative informal groups are the basis for problems
within a police department and a way to combat this is by
getting administration and higher level officers to show proper
character within their agencies and to be more involved with
new member adjustment.
Informal groups of police officers can end up causing large
amounts of damage to the department's social fabric at large. In
an ideal situation, all police officers entering the department
would be socialized into the same dominant department culture.
Where deviations may exist between individuals in this
dominant culture, all officers in the department would be on the
same page. These informal groups form when their is no
dominant culture that is accepted by everyone, and smaller
groups of like-minded officers within the department stick
together and create a type of "sub-culture" between themselves.
These sub-cultures naturally exist in most organizations, as
people tend to naturally gravitate towards like-minded
individuals. Problems arise, however, when the values of a sub-
culture or informal group go against the social and cultural
values of the department at large. For example, a particular
police department might have official policies in place for
hiring women and the support of most employees, but a small

4. group of "old guard" officers might never associate with these
new female officers. In this example, the informal "old guard"
group has social values that go against the department as a
whole.
Ensuring adequate socialization of new hires is the most
important step in countering the negative influences of informal
groups. If an environment is created within the department in
which everyone feels welcome, even if they do not agree with
everything done they will not fracture off into smaller groups.
Additionally, many informal groups are formed in response to a
perceived complaint or issue within the department. Addressing
the complaints of the informal groups, if reasonably possible,
would also bring them back into the dominant department
culture.
Informal groups are groups of people that for the most part go
against the values and norms of the organization or larger
group. In some situations it can be an informal group of
something small like talking about the supervisor in a negative
light or something as big as a group of people stealing money
from the larger group or organization. Just like any organization
police departments have informal groups that surface
throughout. These groups can be very toxic to the police
department and to their perception to the public if they are made
visible. There is no one way to overcome these negative
influences because people are people and there will always be at
least one bad apple in the group. But maybe one way to lesson
them is to make sure disciplinary actions are being taken
against the informal groups that do form in police departments.
Examples like probationary periods for small things and to go
as far as to firing individuals that deface the mission and
integrity of the department. When it comes to corrupt actions
such as taking money in exchange for silence with drug dealers

5. or messing with evidence in certain cases extreme disciplinary
actions need to be taken in order to let everyone else know in
the agency that those sort of actions will NOT be tolerated.
Examples such as those that get out to the general public can
have a bad perception of officers and what they do and if they
do get out the public also needs to know that that particular
department will not tolerate that sort of injustice which means
not giving them desk duty or unpaid leave but taking serious
actions. In this day and age police departments do not need
anymore corrupt or informal groups surfacing making them look
bad, if there are they need to be taken care of as soon as
possible because it only takes that one to ruin it for everyone
else.
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