Mercy Row Supervisors

A supervisor is a leader who supervises over a person or facility. These supervisors are similar in positon as a director, manager, chief and more. A supervisor handles a wide variety of responsibilities, like helping it subordinates with understanding goals and the facilities targets. Training new, workers on their role and job titles. Assisting with hiring and firing employees. resolving escalations, and many more. Unfortunately some supervisors are not great to work with while others are. Great qualities that make an effective leader would be a supervisor that inspires, motivate, and instill high values in their employees. There are 3 main theories of leadership, one being behavioral theories, second being contingency theories and last being

trait theories.
Behavioral theories focus is more so on the supervisor behavior to where he/she is task driven and empathetic toward his or her subordinates. Task driven leaders thrive on a more structure, detail and clear division when it comes to one role and responsibility. The main down about a task driven leader is that some workers enjoy working alone and independently and may feel uncomfortable working with leader who doesn’t give their workers space and independency. Contingency theory states that leaders must select the correct leadership style to match a particular problem. Since leaders have many different responsibilities, they also have many different situations they will face and have to confront. The contingency model of leadership created by Fred Fieldler focused on three factors 1) positon power, 2)structure of task, 3) interpersonal relationship between a leader and his or her followers. Fieldler also created traits that could be used to measure positon power. The ability to reward behavior, possesses official rank and status, has knowledge that of similar to what ever work position is attained, and are aware of the many alternatives that can be explored in order to accomplish the desired goal. The trait theory of leadership expresses that every leader consist of specific characteristics that enables them to be victorious. According to trait theory leader advance and flourish well with definite traits. Traits like the ability to come forth, and present new ideas, accomplish and achieve academic quality, and lastly the ability to work well in a group and with others. These models express that leaders who conserve and cultivates high ethical standards within his or her workers, may be less experienced and there for less respected by subordinates. So a supervisor must be able to cultivate a work environment that fosters high ethical standards.
Criminal justice supervisor also face unique threats also within each of the segments of policing, probation, parole and corrections. Starting with threats toward correctional supervisors would be peer culture, which is when supervisor are influence by more experienced supervisors, in which those ideas may create ethical dilemmas for the regular correction officers. So communication between the workers and supervisors are key because communication should provide a more successful environment for both workers. Another threat would be denial of responsibility which could go for all four professions, because a great leader will never look for excuses, when things are not going right. Probation and parole officers both face issues when it comes to managing their staff as well. Issues like probation and parole officers usually have a ton of offenders who have committed more serious crime then in the past. Also the turnover rate, for this particular position is very high. This profession also receives less pay then many police officers also this profession experience high levels of stress due to all the case work paper work and deadlines. Last but not least is policing unique threat supervisor face, is failing to exercise discipline. Workers who see their supervisor is lacking leader ship or low ethical standards start to see their supervisor as weak and easy to manipulate. This lack of respect could lead to ethical problems like enforcing laws, and responding timely to low priority calls.
Forensic Scientist
A forensic scientist is an individual who assist in investigative crimes by gathering and observing physical evidence. Most technicians specialize in topics such as crimes scene investigations or laboratory analysis. They usually walk around the crime scene’s take a few photos, take notes gather important physical evidence that may be left behind by the possible perpetrator, and also more. Forensic scientist has a unique relationship with law enforcement, prosecutors and defense attorneys. Altho the scientist works in close relation with these other professions it is important the forensic scientist remain impartial and independent. Failure to remain impartial may result in presentation of case in court, the fairness of the findings. The forensic scientist has a professional duty to work first as a scientist. Throughout the working process of scientific observation and analysis the scientist should at all times sustain their self-determination and morality. Another ethical challenge forensic scientist may face is pressure from others. For example these scientist can sometimes feel pressure to create and obtain certain result to testify to specific findings in court. There are substantial public and political pressure to identify a suspect, make an arrest and obtain a conviction. It is important that the scientist don’t view himselve as a crime fighter or become a part of the accessory process but more so just a scientist that analysis the important physical findings. Which is why they says scientist should also remain unbiased and neutral.
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The Mercy Seat
While reading The Mercy Row I felt this short story was very interesting and a different side of life to read.

I felt this short story is trying to bring attention to the little things in life we take for granted as well as being thankful for all those little things. If I was Sargent of the particular unit called death row, depending on certain things I would have let Gerald (Bishop) speak with Jethro. If I felt I knew Bishop and felt he was of no harm than I would have let him speak with Jethro because it was Jethro final few days before he was executed. So maybe he did need someone to speak with. At the same time if I was new and did not know much about the inmate and was not sure what he was about, I would not have let Bishop out to speak with Jethro. I would if I was a new correctional officer because I would not now the inmate for even the facility well enough to do so. So I would not feel safe or comfortable to letting that inmate out at all especially with the prison unit being called death row, which are where all of the serious murderers would be in my opinion. As a supervisor I feel the behaviors that are being modeled by the employees are from the supervisor. The supervisor did not seem to be much involved since he short story stated he was taking a nap and will be upset if anyone was to interrupt him. I feel like the supervisor is a poor excuse of a supervisor because he is at work to do a job with is supervisor but yet he is off sleeping. I feel the supervisor is disconnected from his staff, which increases the potential for inmate and staff corruption. He supervisor seems to be failing to provide adequate supervision, which could lead to low ethical standards and cause workers to not follow the rules. I feel if the supervisor was up monitoring the correctional officer’s behavior Bishop would have not been able to speak with

Jethro.