{"id":3130,"date":"2021-04-28T13:32:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T13:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/?p=3130"},"modified":"2025-02-10T13:30:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T18:30:58","slug":"teach-in-the-name-of-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/2021\/04\/28\/teach-in-the-name-of-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Teach, in the Name of the Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kadence-column3130_6d76bd-8f > .kt-inside-inner-col{padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);}.kadence-column3130_6d76bd-8f > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column3130_6d76bd-8f > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column3130_6d76bd-8f > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column3130_6d76bd-8f > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column3130_6d76bd-8f > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column3130_6d76bd-8f > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column3130_6d76bd-8f{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column3130_6d76bd-8f > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 991px){.kadence-column3130_6d76bd-8f > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column3130_6d76bd-8f dynamic-main-col\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading3130_0c3188-b1, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading3130_0c3188-b1[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading3130_0c3188-b1\"]{font-size:1.5rem;line-height:30px;font-weight:500;font-style:italic;font-family:proxima-nova;color:#808080;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading3130_0c3188-b1 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading3130_0c3188-b1[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading3130_0c3188-b1\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading3130_0c3188-b1 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading3130_0c3188-b1[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading3130_0c3188-b1\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading3130_0c3188-b1 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading3130_0c3188-b1\">Experience is education for WilmU\u2019s Criminal Justice Institute.&nbsp;There\u2019s no substitute for experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Dr. Raymond Carr and Scott Duffey, the assistant professors who direct Wilmington University\u2019s Criminal Justice Institute, lead a continuing education program for law enforcement professionals, their combined 64 years in the field add the weight of authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their True Crime Lecture Series has packed the ballroom of a Concord Pike hotel by inviting the investigators, profilers, and undercover agents behind headline-making cases to reflect on their careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019ve shared statistics and strategies for responding to an active shooter incident with the faculty and staff of a local school district in order to prepare them to protect their students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRay and I love face-to-face instruction. We love audience engagement,\u201d says Duffey. \u201cIt adds to the grasp of whatever you\u2019re learning. It\u2019s hands-on in our classrooms and when we\u2019re learning about the needs of those we train.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Changing Courses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The past year\u2019s circumstances have, of course, tapped the brakes on bringing experience into most rooms, but they haven\u2019t slowed the educational efforts of the two former Federal Bureau of Investigation special agents.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.kb-image3130_e26ef9-6c.kb-image-is-ratio-size, .kb-image3130_e26ef9-6c .kb-image-is-ratio-size{max-width:300px;width:100%;}.wp-block-kadence-column > .kt-inside-inner-col > .kb-image3130_e26ef9-6c.kb-image-is-ratio-size, .wp-block-kadence-column > .kt-inside-inner-col > .kb-image3130_e26ef9-6c .kb-image-is-ratio-size{align-self:unset;}.kb-image3130_e26ef9-6c figure{max-width:300px;}.kb-image3130_e26ef9-6c .image-is-svg, .kb-image3130_e26ef9-6c .image-is-svg img{width:100%;}.kb-image3130_e26ef9-6c .kb-image-has-overlay:after{opacity:0.3;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image3130_e26ef9-6c\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"365\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.test.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20201117-MAG-Spr21-CJI-9987-365x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"kb-img wp-image-3132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20201117-MAG-Spr21-CJI-9987-365x480.jpg 365w, https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20201117-MAG-Spr21-CJI-9987-190x250.jpg 190w, https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20201117-MAG-Spr21-CJI-9987.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><figcaption><em>Scott Duffey<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCOVID has changed the way we do things,\u201d Duffey says. \u201cIt is different, there\u2019s no doubt. Ray and I have been learning the realities of doing everything virtually and facing the challenge of, how do you continue to engage your audience, how do you keep training relevant, when you\u2019re behind the screen?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a good question, and it requires a whole new skill set, as many educators have learned over the past year. \u201cI personally feed off the classroom environment,\u201d says Duffey. \u201cWe have a lot of Q&amp;A. Six to eight hours just disappear, and then people stay behind to ask me for more information. If we condense the content into a 60-to- 90-minute presentation, can it offer the same punch?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019re finding out, most notably in the new training courses they\u2019ve introduced in the second block of this spring semester. One course focuses on responding to animal control and animal cruelty issues. \u201cThat\u2019s a subject that\u2019s a lot different from what the average police officer is trained to handle,\u201d says Dr. Carr. \u201cWe heard people in law enforcement saying, we don\u2019t really have anyone who can do that. Here in Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, police usually partner with the local SPCA, so we\u2019re looking to provide the responders getting into it with the rules, regulations, ethics, and professional standards.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other course, designed for the WilmU community and members of the public, covers cyber security and protecting the privacy of one\u2019s personal information against intrusion. \u201cThe role-playing we use in training doesn\u2019t work the same when it\u2019s seen online,\u201d says Dr. Carr, but cyber security is compatible with videoconferencing. \u201cYou can engage people with audiovisuals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who\u2019s Watching?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Online instruction also offers the possibilities of increased reach and a wider audience. Since last summer, the Criminal Justice Institute (CJI) has been producing a monthly webinar series called \u201cTo Catch a Criminal\u201d in partnership with the Philadelphia-based Vidocq Society. The society, whose members include homicide investigators, forensic scientists, psychologists, prosecutors, coroners, and others, has been meeting since 1990 to review cold cases for new insights. \u201cOur webinars for the Vidocq Society have gone nationwide,\u201d says Dr. Carr. \u201cThey\u2019ve been viewed by some of the greatest criminal justice minds in the country.\u201d (Dr. Carr was inducted recently into the Vidocq Society and is now one of just 82 full members in the world.)<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.kb-image3130_51d841-4f.kb-image-is-ratio-size, .kb-image3130_51d841-4f .kb-image-is-ratio-size{max-width:300px;width:100%;}.wp-block-kadence-column > .kt-inside-inner-col > .kb-image3130_51d841-4f.kb-image-is-ratio-size, .wp-block-kadence-column > .kt-inside-inner-col > .kb-image3130_51d841-4f .kb-image-is-ratio-size{align-self:unset;}.kb-image3130_51d841-4f figure{max-width:300px;}.kb-image3130_51d841-4f .image-is-svg, .kb-image3130_51d841-4f .image-is-svg img{width:100%;}.kb-image3130_51d841-4f .kb-image-has-overlay:after{opacity:0.3;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image3130_51d841-4f\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"353\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.test.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20201117-MAG-Spr21-CJI-9978-353x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"kb-img wp-image-3133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20201117-MAG-Spr21-CJI-9978-353x480.jpg 353w, https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20201117-MAG-Spr21-CJI-9978-184x250.jpg 184w, https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20201117-MAG-Spr21-CJI-9978.jpg 735w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><figcaption><em>Dr. Raymond Carr<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Carr\u2019s contribution in November to the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences\u2019 Human Trafficking Awareness Webinar series likewise drew distant participation. His discussion of the links between trafficking and pornography counted virtual attendees from Europe and Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur influence is growing,\u201d he says. \u201cThe pandemic has caused us to take a look through a different lens, and we\u2019ve expanded what we\u2019ve been able to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t expect an international presence anytime soon, though. Since its founding three years ago, the CJI has focused on the local, offering customized professional development and training courses on a range of topics to law enforcement agencies in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cScott and I always want to make sure that our primary audience of local law enforcement professionals have access to the resources they need, so we\u2019re not in a hurry to expand,\u201d says Dr. Carr. \u201cThat\u2019s really our mission, making law enforcement better. And law enforcement, they\u2019re not shy, they\u2019ll tell you what they need.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">State of the Profession<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the wake of a 2017 hostage crisis at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna, the Delaware Department of Corrections hired the CJI to provide the facility\u2019s employees with specialized training as part of its efforts to reform conditions at the prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CJI continued its relationship with the Department of Corrections last year, signing a three-year contract to deliver a short course of professional education to each of the department\u2019s 2,100 employees. The eight-week blocks of live videoconferenced sessions cover leadership and ethics for senior staff and de-escalation, conflict resolution, and communication for cadets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working with the Delaware State Police, Dr. Carr and Duffey have also developed the Constable Academy, an online in-service course for the more than 300 officers who carry out civil service duties for the state\u2019s Justice of the Peace Court, including serving summons and subpoenas and conducting evictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These educational initiatives are an area of increasing importance, particularly considering the politics and pressures involved in many discussions of law enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been in touch with our law enforcement partners to learn how they\u2019ve been impacted,\u201d says Duffey. \u201cThe past year has exposed a lot of things that weren\u2019t previously in view. We\u2019re seeing things change rapidly, for better and worse. And the problems aren\u2019t just outside of the occupation, but also inside.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Continuing education isn\u2019t unwarranted, he says, given that much of a first responder\u2019s training occurs on the job, as they approach and manage each individual situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe can be the bridge to bring over the resources they need,\u201d says Duffey. \u201cWe\u2019re not just providing a slogan, but also solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the CJI, the learning runs both ways, and this is essential for two instructors who\u2019ve retired from the front line. \u201cNo matter who we\u2019re training, we always walk away with something new that we\u2019ve learned,\u201d says Dr. Carr. \u201cThen we make our training session better the next time we\u2019re teaching it. It\u2019s a constant evolution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adds Duffey, \u201cI never want to be a dinosaur, teaching stuff that\u2019s out of date.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Next Available Opportunities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For teaching and learning, there\u2019s no substitute for firsthand experience, and Dr. Carr and Duffey are eagerly anticipating bringing it once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the CJI\u2019s first annual Violent Crime Symposium \u2014 which was scheduled to bring law enforcement officers from across the country to Wilmington in April of 2020 for three days of professional development and discussions of current issues \u2014 was postponed indefinitely among last spring\u2019s COVID-19 precautions, they\u2019re still looking forward to making it a reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019ve also been in contact with the speakers who\u2019d been on deck for the monthly True Crime Lecture Series, including a retired FBI hostage negotiator, an agent who\u2019d infiltrated an organized crime family, and a Unabomber case investigator, and are waiting for the day they can welcome them to Wilmington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur audience has been growing,\u201d says Dr. Carr. \u201cWe\u2019re ready to roll, once we get the all-clear.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>For more information about Wilmington University\u2019s Criminal Justice Institute, please visit their website at <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/wilmu.edu\/cji\"><strong><em>wilmu.edu\/cji<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experience is education for WilmU\u2019s Criminal Justice Institute.&nbsp;There\u2019s no substitute for experience. 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