Criminal Justice Assignment | Justice |

Real-life is not always tidy, and this fact certainly holds true in public communications. Audiences have multiple characteristics that can influence how a message should be delivered. As a criminal justice professional, you must consider how audience characteristics might influence how a message should be delivered.

You should then consider challenges to effectively communicating a message to that audience. Reflect on your video presentation from Week 4. Explain how you would revise your approach if, as the chief of police, you were presenting to your fellow police officers instead of to the community. In your explanation, be sure not to change the content of your original message. In a 1- to 2-page paper, explain how you might revise your approach in the presentation based on the characteristics of the new audience (police officers enforcing the policy rather than communicating information to community members) and why. Be sure to indicate who your audience members previously were. Be sure not to change the content of the message.