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CJ 510 Milestone Three Guidelines and Rubric
Overview: The final project in this course will expose you to a problem situation and task you with how it should be solved. You will imagine you are employed at
a criminal justice organization facing a communal problem. Your superior at the organization has asked you to review the problem situation and offer your
recommendations. You will be given the chance to evaluate the situation and develop suggestions that will inform development of strategies to address the issue
using appropriate ethical and transparent leadership and communication skills.
The main purpose of this third milestone of your project is for you to work on your analysis of ethics. You will analyze your selected case study for the ethics that
were used to address the problem. You will evaluate how leadership addressed the problem and whether they used ethical decision-making.
Prompt: Using your selected case study, complete the following critical elements for the assignment:
A. Determine the ethicality of leadership’s decision making in their attempts to address the problem. Be sure to justify your response and support your
response with appropriate research from the field gathered in your previous review.
B. Evaluate the transparency of the organization in regard to public communications. Be sure to justify your response. For example, are systems in place to
communicate with the public? Has the organization been readily available and willing to provide the community with information regarding the
problem?
C. Evaluate how leadership of the organization considered the ethical concerns of the community in addressing the problem. Be sure to justify your
response. For example, how were the concerns of internal and external stakeholders considered?
D. Determine how the ethical decisions of leadership may impact the performance of employees in addressing the problem. How might these decisions
improve employees’ ability to address the problem? How might they hinder their ability to address the problem?
E. Determine how the ethical decisions of leadership may impact the culture of the organization. For example, what if employees do not agree with the
decisions?
F. Explain the overall implications of the ethical decision-making of leadership and how that affects the organization and community. Be sure to justify
your response, and support your response with appropriate research from the field gathered in your previous review.
Refer to the Criminal Justice Library Tips for support in finding and citing outside resources.

Rubric
Guidelines for Submission: Your submission should be 2–3 pages, 12 point Times New Roman font, double-spaced, and follow APA formatting.
Please note that the grading rubric for the milestone submission is not identical to that of the final project. The Final Project Rubric will include an additional
“Exemplary” category that provides guidance as to how you can go above and beyond “Proficient” in your final submission.
Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (80%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Analysis of Ethics:
Ethicality
Determines the ethicality of
leadership’s decision making
during their attempts to address
the problem, justifying response
and supporting response with
appropriate research from the
field
Determines the ethicality of
leadership’s decision making
during their attempts to address
the problem, justifying response
and supporting response with
appropriate research from the
field but determination is
cursory, illogical, or there are
gaps in the justification, or
supporting research is
inappropriate
Does not determine the
ethicality of leadership’s decision
making during their attempts to
address the problem
15
Analysis of Ethics:
Transparency
Evaluates the transparency of
the organization in regard to
public communications,
justifying response
Evaluates the transparency of
the organization in regard to
public communications but
evaluation is cursory, illogical, or
there are gaps in the justification
Does not evaluate the
transparency of the organization
in regard to public
communications
15
Analysis of Ethics: Ethical
Concerns
Evaluates how leadership of the
organization considered the
ethical concerns of the
community in addressing the
problem, justifying response
Evaluates how leadership of the
organization considered the
ethical concerns of the
community in addressing the
problem, justifying response but
evaluation is cursory, illogical, or
there are gaps in the justification
Does not evaluate how
leadership of the organization
considered the ethical concerns
of the community in addressing
the problem
15
Analysis of Ethics:
Performance
Determines how the ethical
decisions of leadership may
impact the performance of
employees in addressing the
problem
Determines how the ethical
decisions of leadership may
impact the performance of
employees in addressing the
problem, but determination is
cursory or illogical
Does not determine how the
ethical decisions of leadership
may impact the performance of
employees in addressing the
problem
15
Analysis of Ethics:
Culture
Determines how the ethical
decisions of leadership may
impact the culture of the
organization
Determines how the ethical
decisions of leadership may
impact the culture of the
organization, but determination
is cursory or illogical
Does not determine how the
ethical decisions of leadership
may impact the culture of the
organization
15
Analysis of Ethics:
Implications
Explains the overall implications
of the ethical decision-making of
leadership and how that affects
the organization and the
community, justifying response
and supporting response with
appropriate research from the
field
Explains the overall implications
of the ethical decision-making of
leadership and how that affects
the organization and the
community, justifying response,
but explanation is cursory,
illogical, or there are gaps in the
justification, or supporting
research is inappropriate
Does not explain the overall
implications of the ethical
decision-making of leadership
and how that affects the
organization and the community
15
Articulation of Response Submission has no major errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization
Submission has major errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization
that negatively impact readability
and articulation of main ideas
Submission has critical errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization
that prevent understanding of
ideas
10
Total 100%