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Is A Rainbow Pink Or Blue? Creating Jail Policies For Transgender Inmates, Hunter Schultz
Is A Rainbow Pink Or Blue? Creating Jail Policies For Transgender Inmates, Hunter Schultz
Master of Arts in Criminal Justice Leadership
The United States prison system functions on a binary of male and female inmates. Transgender, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and intersex individuals challenge the limits of these systems and their policies. This paper addresses how to create policy for transgender individuals and what the policies should include. The best practice for creating policies involves basing them in solid ethics. Looking at different ethical theories will help solve ethical dilemmas involving housing, searching, and other policies for transgender and gender non-conforming inmates. To ensure that policies coincide with the law, an examination of case law provides the legal background for these policies. …
The Delicate Balance: Police In Our Schools, Mark Hanneman
The Delicate Balance: Police In Our Schools, Mark Hanneman
Master of Arts in Criminal Justice Leadership
School resource officers (SROs) face the arduous task of balancing expectations from both police and school administrations. This paper will serve to provide an overarching view of the circumstances surrounding SROs and the job they are tasked to complete. Administrative stakeholders will be identified, unique considerations for the duality of administrations within the SRO position will be considered, and administrative strategies to mitigate the potential for conflict will be explained. A formulated action plan will analyze the impact of ethical principles within work as an SRO through the lens of fellow officers, the school district community, students, parents of students, …