You are a member of the training division at your law enforcement agency. The unit sergeant has asked that you create an informative voice-over PowerPoint® presentation that explains the normative and applied prevailing criminal justice models of ethical reasoning. This PowerPoint presentation will be played at all roll calls and shift briefing training(s) for your department. The instruction set delivered to you indicates that (at a minimum) the PowerPoint should address each theory’s history, tenets, and applications. The presentation will assume the normative judgment model, which emphasizes the three moral judgment imperatives (the human act, free will, and effect upon others). This presentation requires an embedded audio recording that serves to explain the slides presented. A suggested outline for the slideshow is listed below.
- Title slide (required)
- The Ethics of Virtue (title slide)
- History of the Ethics of Virtue
- Tenets of the Ethics of Virtue
- Provide a criminal-justice-based, “real-world” example of the ethics of virtue.
- Ethical Formalism (Deontological Ethics) (title slide)
- History of Ethical Formalism
- Model of Ethical Formalism
- Provide a criminal-justice-based, “real-world” application of deontological ethics.
- Consequentialism (Teleological Ethics) (title slide)
- History of Consequentialism
- Model of Consequentialism
- Provide a criminal-justice-based, “real-world” example of utilitarianism.
- Ethics of Care (Restorative Justice) (title slide)
- History of the Ethics of Care
- Tenets of the Ethics of Care
- Provide a criminal-justice-based, “real-world” example of the ethics of care.
- What is “noble cause corruption,” and where does it fit within the ethical models?
- Summary
- Reference slide (required)
Narration Guidelines:
- Maintain a professional tone by summarizing observations and evaluations for each slide.
- Ensure that your presentation is highly ordered, logical, and unified.
- Words should be clearly enunciated, and professional tone should be sustained throughout the presentation narration.
- Audio recording should be free of background noise and interruptions.
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- Your slide requirement is excluding your title, introduction, and reference slides.
- Use one basic slide design and layout.
- Limit slides to between 6 and 8 lines of content.
- You may use pictures, charts, and graphs to supplement your material as long as they do not take up the entire slide.
- Use bullets for your main points.
- Use speaker notes to fully explain what is being discussed in the bullet points as though you are presenting to an audience, being sure to follow the Standard English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.).
- Viewpoint and purpose should be clearly established and sustained.
- Presentation should be well ordered, logical and unified, as well as original and insightful.
- Your work should display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics.
- Appropriate citation style should be followed.
You should also make sure to:
- Use examples to support your discussion.
- Cite all sources on a separate reference slide at the end of your PowerPoint and reference and cite within the body of the presentation using APA format and citation style. For more information on APA guidelines, visit Academic Tools.