Article Critiques Instructions

For each article critique, you will select 2 peer-reviewed articles no older than 5 years. Using concepts presented in the weekly reading and study, you will write a 1-2-page critique of these articles in current APA format.

Article Critique 1

Locate 2 peer-reviewed articles no older than 5 years about ethics in policing administration. Provide an in-depth discussion of the findings in each article.

Based on your critique of the literary pieces, what might an ethical organization look like?

Specify the characteristics of training, leadership, and employees that might be expected in an ethical police organization.

Review the biblical themes in the presentation titled: "Police (Part 1)" found in the Module/Week 2 Reading & Study folder.

Discuss some of the challenges associated with organizations that are replete with corruption like racism and discrimination from a Christian and biblical worldview.

Article Critique 2

Locate 2 peer-reviewed articles no older than 5 years that discuss 2 historical Supreme Court cases and review the presentation titled: "Courts (Part 1)" found in the Module/Week 4 Reading & Study folder.

This historical case-law can be related to: search and seizure, stop and frisk, searches for evidence, or police interrogation and confessions. Provide an in-depth discussion of the findings of each article. With respect to the specific case law you have analyzed, defend constitutional democracy and the issues raised in case-law from a Christian worldview.

Article Critique 3

Locate 2 peer-reviewed articles no older than 5 years that discuss prison privatization. One article must present arguments advocating for American prison privatization and the second article must present arguments against American prison privatization. Provide a critique of each author's position on the privatization of prisons.

Review the presentation titled: "Corrections (Part 1)" found in the Module/Week 6 Reading & Study folder. From a Christian worldview, critique the current state of private prisons and present a clear argument on how to fix the system.