Department of Sociology, Social Work
& Criminal Justice

MPM 584 Threat Management for Criminal Justice and Public Service Agencies

Instructor: Dr. Fran FullerSemester: Spring, 2004
Class Location: BA Bldg Room 220Time: Wednesday 6:30-9:30pm [Evening Class]
Office Hours: BA Bldg Rm 205, 2:30-3:30pm Mon - Thurs & by appointment
Section: 01 
Office Hours: BA Bldg Rm 205, 2:30-3:30pm Mon - Thurs & by appointment">

Description
MPM 584. Threat Management...
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.

Goals
Public service agencies exist to prevent or manage crisis to the extent dictated by the central mission of each agency. The goal of MPM 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: Parkinson, Frank. 2000. Post-trauma stress: Reduce long-term effects and hidden emotional damage caused by violence and disaster. Tucson, AZ: Fisher Books.
Required: Paul, Richard and Linda Elder. The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking: Concepts & Tools. Dillon Beach, CA: The Foundation for Critical Thinking. (NOTE: Available in UNCP bookstore in study accessory section where "trade" books are available to all students. So get yours while they are available.)

Course Resource Links
1 -- NC DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
2 -- LINKS to NC Emergency MGT webpages
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 three grades: (1) Class attendance and participation (60%); (2) your grant proposal project (20%); and (3) your final exam score (20%).

Your final exam in "M-KAT Format"-- during Final Exam Week on May 5, 2002, 6:30pm-8:30pm -- 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. 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 beginning of the last day of class Wed April 28, 2004 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.

Grade Components
 Name 
 Weight 
  Subject
Attendance/Participation
60%
 See Attendance Policy below. Participation includes in-class quizzes in "M-KAT" format, class discussion, class exercises and computer assignments, as well as student presentations of community response critiques. In-class quizzes cover lecture material, assigned reading and class discussion issues.
Grant Proposal Project
20%
 Features some enhancement to an agency operation in the area of threat management. A written grant application is the graded final product.
Final Exam -- May 5, 6:30-9:00pm
20%
 "M-KAT Format." Comprehensive. Covers lecture material, assigned reading, class discussion issues and information made available through student presentations. Everything.

Final Grades
 A: 92-100 (4.0QP)  B+: 87-89 (3.3QP)  C+: 77-79 (2.3QP)  D+: 67-69 (1.3QP)  F: 0-59 (0QP)  
 A-: 90-91 (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 attendance missed. Please consult with your classmates in order to find out what you missed.

(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 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, Wednesday April 28, 2004.

(5) The Final Exam is scheduled for Wednesday May 5, 2004, 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.
UNCP Academic Honor Code

Contact Information
Office Location: BA Bldg Rm 205, UNC Pembroke, Pembroke, North Carolina
Office Hours: Before and after classes scheduled and posted below, 10-11AM Mondays, and by Appointment.
Office Tel with Voice Mail: 910-521-6473.
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 and in Spring Lake, North Carolina. Dr. Fuller can be reached at home at your convenience at 910-483-9051 or 910-436-3840.

Dr. Fuller's Class Schedule, Spring, 2004
(1) CRJ/SWK/SOC 360-01 Social Statistics (Mon & Fri 10:00-11:15am, BA Bldg Rm 211 Computer Lab)
(2) CRJ/SOC 361-02 Social Research (Evening Class, T & Th 5:00-6:15pm, BA Bldg 211 Computer Lab)
(3) MPM-CJ 584 Threat Management for Criminal Justice and Pubic Service Agencies (Evening Class, Wednesdays from 6:30-9:30, BA Bldg 220)

Updated January 7, 2004 | fran.fuller@uncp.edu | Copyright © 2004 The University of North Carolina at Pembroke