Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice

CRJ 5840 (MPA) Threat Management for Criminal Justice and Public Service Agencies

Instructor: Dr. Fran FullerSemester: Fall, 2007
Class Location: Rm 230 Sampson (New Classroom Bldg, North of Dial) Time: Monday 6:30-9:30pm [Evening Class, Blended: Contact Hrs Online & Inclass, see schedule below]
Office Hours: MW 9:00-10:30am; T,Th, Fri 9:30-10:00 am, SAMP Rm 208, & by Appointment Call 733-5317
Section: 001 
Office Hours: MW 9:00-10:30am; T,Th, Fri 9:30-10:00 am, SAMP Rm 208, & by Appointment Call 733-5317 ">

Description
NOTE: This course outline is revised for the semester opening Fall, 2007, and additional revisions may be made. Changes after August 15 will be discussed in class before they are made. F. Fuller, July 20, 2007.

(MPA)CRJ 584. Threat Management for Criminal Justice and Public Service Agencies, from the UNCP MPA Catalog Online: Practical reactive and proactive strategies for wide-ranging crisis situations are assessed, including criminal attacks on criminal justice and public service organizations and their members, criminal malfeasance within the organization, and community disruptions including natural disasters. Organizational interfaces with specialists are studied, including FEMA, local police and emergency response agencies, private security companies, non-governmental agencies, and the mass information media. On-going staff training components and policy statements are considered.

(MPA) CRJ 5840-001 Threat Management is scheduled for Fall, 2007 as synchronized ("hybrid" "blended") class where student/faculty contact hours are made up of both on-campus in-class face-to-face hours and on-line web-based contact and study.

Face-to-face classes scheduled for Aug 20, 27, Sept 10, Nov 5, 12, 19, 26 on Monday Evenings from 6:30-9:30pm.

On-line equivalent contact scheduled for the weeks of Sept 3, 17, 24th with Blackboard as class delivery software application.

Webcast asynchronous participation and viewing scheduled for Oct 1, 8, 15, 22, & 29th with each student on-campus for one of those evenings with a guest panelist.

Goals
Public service agencies exist to prevent or manage crisis to the extent dictated by the central mission of each agency. The goal of (MPA)CRJ 584 Threat Management is to focus the public management student on the literature and organizations devoted to the deliberate analysis of threats and their management, and to allow each student to think through applications of this knowledge for service delivery agencies where they have personal experience or interest.

Objectives
By semester end, each student will have:
  • Utilized their computer application skills to include Web based resource searching, wordprocessing in document generation and PowerPoint software in the preparation of educational and report materials.
  • Teamed up with classmates to analyze a community agency response to a disaster situation which actually occurred or one portrayed in any one of a number of popular (but non-sci/fi) disaster movies and presented the critique to the class.
  • Learned more than they thought possible about hurricane prediction and hurricane path effects in North Carolina.
  • Analyzed their own position in the region (South Central North Carolina), opened their own threat management resource shelf and established their own threat response rolodex for their own personal networking efforts.
  • Acting either independently or teamed with a suitable agency representative, prepared a grant application featuring some enhancement to the agency operations in the area of threat management. These areas could include:
    • Training sessions for agency personnel in some aspect of threat analysis or threat response.
    • A suitable application of Post-Traumatic Stress response consideration in an agency or a community.
    • Seminars designed to convey communication and networking information to specified agency personnel.
    • The acquisition of equipment or information access capacity that would enhance the planning capacity in threat management for an agency or a community.
    • Release time for existing agency personnel for liaison and cross-training with agencies tasked for parallel response to known threats.

Course Materials
Textbook(s)
Required:

Barnes, Jay. 2000[?] North Carolina's Hurricane History, 3rd Edition. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press.

Faggiano, Vincent and Thomas T. Gillespie. 2004. Critical Incident Mangement: An On-scene Guide for Law Enforcement Supervisors. Tulsa, OK: K&M Publishers.

Parkinson, Frank. 2000. Post-trauma stress: Reduce long-term effects and hidden emotional damage caused by violence and disaster. Tucson, AZ: Fisher Books.

Paul, Richard and Linda Elder. The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking: Concepts & Tools, [The Little Blue Book]. Dillon Beach, CA: The Foundation for Critical Thinking.

ON-LINE purchase information for UNC Pembroke Bookstore.

Course Resource Links
Assignments
Schedule
1 -- NC DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
2 -- NC County Emergency Coordinator Phone Numbers
3 -- The Disaster Center's NC HomePage
4 -- FEMA's WebPage for Emergency Managers
5 -- Hazard Mitigation in North Carolina
6 -- CDC (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)
7 -- Ventrell on Developing the Emergency Response Plan
8 -- National Terrorism Preparedness Institute, St. Petersburg College, St. Petersburg, FL
9 -- North Carolina Interfaith Disaster Response
10 -- DNN (Disaster News Network)
11 -- CHEMTREC
12 -- NC ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Services)

Grading Policy
Your grade is determined by four weighted component grades: (1st) Class attendance and on-line participation (50%); (2nd) your overall contribution (including your invited guest panelist's performance) to the web-based presentations and discussions (20%); (3rd) your grant proposal (15%) with a "two-pager" graded as the written part of your final exam (5%), and (4th) the objective portion of your final exam (10%)

Your final exam in "M-KAT Format"-- during Final Exam Week on Dec 3, 2007, In-class, 6:30pm-9:00pm -- will be based on, but not limited to material covered in-class quizzes undertaken as part of class participation. Scores earned on the quizzes and the final exam are the percentage of correct answers.

Various aspects of the class and semester projects will be graded separately, some aspects on a Pass/Fail basis, and posted to Blackboard as the semester progresses.

It is your responsibility to be aware of posted grades and to advise me if I have made an evaluation, calculation, or posting error. Before the last day of class, all graded areas of the class and semester projects can be revised for an improved grade, with the exception of the presentation of the community response critiques.

All work will be completed by the last day of classes for the semester, Friday Nov 30, 2007 unless a student makes arrangements for an incomplete.

All grades are individually earned. Co-operation and sharing of information among students is assumed, but no graded product or activity is a group product or group grade.

Students are reminded that their graduate level GPA must be 2.5 or better to earn the Master's degree. Please consult scale below for the translation of percentage-correct grades into letter grades. It requires a greater percent correct to earn an A in graduate school. Fortunately this is not difficult for students who already have some understanding of the attitudes and initiative required of them in the world of agency service.

Grade Components
 Name 
 Weight 
  Subject
Attendance/Participation
50%
 See Attendance Policy below. Participation includes in-class and on-line quizzes in "M-KAT" format, class discussion, class exercises and computer assignments, as well as student presentations of community response critiques. "Friendly" in-class and on-line quizzes cover lecture material, assigned reading and class discussion issues. Some quizzes will be student generated.
Webcast Panel with Guest
15%
 Your overall contribution (including your invited guest panelist's performance) to the web-based presentations and discussions.
Grant Proposal
20%
 Features some enhancement to an agency operation in the area of threat management. A written grant application is the graded final product.
Grant Proposal Flyer
5%
 A "two-pager" flyer quality summary of Grant Proposal, graded as part of the final exam.
Final Exam,  Comprehensive and Objective -- Dec 3, 6:30-9:00pm
10%
 "M-KAT Format." Comprehensive. Covers lecture material, assigned reading, class discussion issues and information made available through student presentations. Everything.

Final Grades
 A: 96-100 (4.0QP)  B+: 87-91 (3.3QP)  C+: 77-79 (2.3QP)  D+: 67-69 (1.3QP)  F: 0-59 (0QP)  
 A-: 92-95 (3.7QP)  B: 82-86 (3.0QP)  C: 72-76 (2.0QP)  D: 62-66 (1.0QP)      
     B-: 80-81 (2.7QP)  C-: 70-71 (1.7QP)  D-: 60-61 (.7QP)      

Attendance Policy
(1) No provisions have been made for making up face-to-face attendance missed or inability to keep up with on-line postings. Please consult with your classmates in order to find out what you missed. It is your responsibility to have telephone contact numbers available for back-up communication with your instructor and your classmates.

(2) Roll call will be often be over by 6:35PM. If you are late, PLEASE come in and take up the work wherever we are. But after class, be sure to hand me a piece of paper your name and the date on it, asking me to please check you present even though you arrived after roll call.

(3) Personal and family emergencies will be considered normal and no make up attendance will be necessary.(This means I do not have to recieve any sort of excuse at all, written or oral, from you about your lateness or absense from class. If you still feel the need to make an excuse, I would prefer to hear you had a great time at the beach.) Again, stay in close communication with your instructor AND classmates if you anticipate or experience a tardy or an absense.

For exams and presentations, students encountering emergencies at the end of the session will be considered on a case by case basis.

NOTE: The University supports a variety of accommodations to the needs of students with disabilities. The policy reads, in part: In post-secondary settings, it is the student's responsibility to request accommodations, if desired. It is important to remember that not every student with a disability needs accommodation. It is equally important to remember that even though two individuals may have the same disability, they may not need the same accommodation. Disability Support Services, UNC Pembroke. Please contact Dr. Fuller with questions and concerns about this and any other aspects of evaluation and grading.

(4) There are no penalties for late assignments as students meet or miss deadlines for project development throughout the semester. A final draft of each student's grant application is due by the Last Day of class, Friday November 30, 2007.

(5) The Final Exam is scheduled for Monday December 3, 2007, in-class, from 6:30am-9:00pm. Please make suitable arrangements to meet the exam schedule. Thanks!

Student Conduct & Honor Code
Students follow the UNCP Honor Code as written. Please review if necessary. All aspects apply. Scroll down to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT PEMBROKE, ACADEMIC HONOR CODE about 3/4 down the scroll-bar in the on-line academic policies from the current on-line UNCP catalog.

The policy suggests that the following summary be included in each course outline:

Student Academic Honor Code "Students have the responsibility to know and observe the UNCP Academic Honor Code. This code forbids cheating, plagiarism, abuse of academic materials, fabrication or falsification of information, and complicity in academic dishonesty. Any special requirements or permission regarding academic honesty in this course will be provided to students in writing at the beginning of the course, and are binding on the students. Academic evaluations in this course include a judgment that the student’s work is free from academic dishonesty of any type; and grades in this course therefore should be and will be adversely affected by academic dishonesty. Students who violate the code can be dismissed from the University. The normal penalty for a first offense is an F in the course. Standards of academic honor will be enforced in this course. Students are expected to report cases of academic dishonesty to the instructor."

"In general, faculty members should, and will, take preventive measures to avoid cases of academic dishonesty (for example, examinations should be carefully proctored). However, a faculty member’s failure to take such measures is no excuse for academic dishonesty. Academic honesty and integrity, in the final analysis, are matters of personal honesty and individual integrity on the part of every student."

Contact Information
Office Location: Sampson Rm 208, the new classroom building north of Dial and Lumbee Hall, UNC Pembroke, Pembroke, North Carolina
Office Hours: Before and after classes scheduled and as posted above: MW 9:00-10:30am; T,Th, Fri 9:30-10:00 am, SAMP Rm 208, & by Appointment Call 733-5317 Office Tel: 910-521-6473. Prefer cell contact 1-910-733-5317.
University Mailing Address: Dr. Fran Fuller, UNC-P, Box 1510, Pembroke NC 28372

Name change alert! Dr. Fuller was Dr. Haga until her marriage December 16, 2001 to Fred Fuller. The Fullers reside in Pembroke, North Carolina.

Dr. Fuller's Class Schedule, Fall, 2007
(1) CRJ/SWK/SOC 3600-002 Social Statistics (T,Th 8-9:15am, SAMP Rm 136 Computer Lab)
(2) CRJ/SOC 3610-001 Social Research (MWF 8-8:50am, SAMP Rm 233, Amphitheatre Classroom
(3) (MPA)CRJ 5840-001 Threat Management for Criminal Justice and Pubic Service Agencies (Evening Class, Blended face to face and on-line, see schedule in course description, above, Mondays 6:30-9:30pm, SAMP Rm 230.)

Other Information
Any student with a documented disability needing academic adjustments is requested to speak directly to Disability Support Services and the instructor, as early in the semester (preferably within the first week) as possible. All discussions with Disability Support Services will remain confidential. Please contact Mary Helen Walker, Disability Support Services, UNC Pembroke. DF Lowry Building, 910-521-6695.

Updated August 15, 2007 | fran.fuller@uncp.edu | Copyright © 2007 The University of North Carolina at Pembroke