Assignment Details

Scenario: You are the senior member of a two-man hostage negotiation team for a maximum-security facility in the Northeast. You and partner are called to a cellblock where an inmate, identified as Alfredo Albondigas, has taken two facilities maintenance personnel and a fellow corrections officer hostage. He is claiming that there are aliens from another planet living in his cellblock and demanding that they leave immediately. He has given an ultimatum that if he does not see the flying saucer leaving the exercise yard area in 2 hours, he will kill the maintenance personnel that he has taken hostage because he knows that they are giving signals to the aliens about him and the other inmates.

Mr. Albondigas is armed with a handmade knife and has his head wrapped in aluminum foil. The Correctional Emergency Response Team (CERT) working with you has a green light to kill Mr. Albondigas, but there are no current opportunities presenting themselves. You have managed to get a throw phone into Mr. Albondigas and you have direct phone communication with him. Also, because of the phone’s design, when he hangs up, you can still hear what is going on in the room. He has not hurt the maintenance personnel so far, but he is using the corrections officer as a translator to speak to the maintenance personnel, as if the maintenance personnel were not speaking English, but some alien tongue.

This scenario may seem humorous because it is fictional, but if it were real, it would be very serious for both the hostages and Mr. Albondigas. You are tasked by the warden and incident commander to make an operations plan centered on dealing with this mentally ill offender.

Address the following questions in a 3–5-page position paper. Present this paper as if it were an operations plan to negotiate with Mr. Albondigas and end the hostage standoff. You do not need to plan the tactical response if the negotiations fail. The paper should confine itself to gathering the information that the negotiator needs and the approach to take when negotiating with Mr. Albondigas to end the standoff. Include the following:

• Explain the mental state of the offender and the 2 most likely mental illnesses that are affecting him. 
• Explain what type of medical personnel you would like to have at the scene, and why. 
• Relate why you think, if the deadline is reached without a solution, Mr. Albondigas will or will not hurt the maintenance personnel. Explain your answer. 
• Articulate the persons whom you would like to have brought to the scene for interviews to help with information that you can use to talk to Mr. Albondigas. 
• Explain your approach as the negotiator when speaking with Mr. Albondigas, and why you would take that approach.

Runninghead:

HOSTAGE NEGOTIATIONS

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HOSTAGE NEGOTIATIONS

Hostage Negotiations and Mental Illness

Name

American Intercontinental University

Date

Abstract

This needs to be a full paragraph and at least 120 words. Do NOT indent this paragraph. This paragraph will be doublespaced. The rest of your paper will also be doublespaced.

Hostage Negotiations and Mental Illness

Start the introduction paragraph here … You must have a clear thesis statement.

Taking content verbatim is not acceptable in academic writing. As such, as a matter of practice in my class, I want you to refrain from using direct quotes in your papers- Direct quotes are rarely if ever needed (less than 2-5% of your paper should be direct quotes and it’s better to avoid them altogether). Remember that “research” does not equal “using a direct quote”. Focus on paraphrasing and synthesizing content in your own words to advance your writing and scholarship. When you paraphrase and synthesize, in text-citation and referencing is still necessary because you are acknowledging that the information you have included in your paper came from “somewhere” and that information is not “lay” knowledge to you.

Mental State of the Offender

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 Explain the mental state of the offender. . include citation and research support.

Possible Mental Disorders Plaguing the Offender

Start text here… Explain the two most likely mental illnesses that are affecting him.

Mental Illness/Disorder # 1

Start text here … include citation and research support.

Mental Illness/Disorder # 2

Start text here … include citation and research support.

Scene Personnel (Medical)

Start text here…  Explain what type of medical personnel you would like to have at the scene, and why? include citation and research support.

Threat Assessment

Start text here… Relate why you think that, if the deadline is reached without a solution, whether Mr. Albondigas will hurt the maintenance personnel or not. Explain your answer. include citation and research support.

Negotiation Tactics, Approach, and Interview Strategy

Start text here… Articulate the persons whom you would like to have brought to the scene for interviews to help with information that you can use to talk to Mr. Albondigas. include citation and research. support.

Start text here….  Tailor this discussion based on the disorders you chose. Explain your approach as the negotiator when speaking with Mr. Albondigas, and why you would take that approach ( remember what are the concerns of the behavior you would expected from the disorders above – speak to each of the two disorders you listed– make those connections to your explanations.  include citation and research support.

Conclusion

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References

This is a 3-5 page paper. Page length excludes tile, abstract and references pages

Spend time with APA : Review page 193 of the APA 6th edition manual for details. This is a helpful website:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

You need a minimum of 4 sources

Each reference must have corresponding citations in the text of your document- I have to be able to follow your research.

Review the rubrics below and the weekly preview announcements posted in the course.

Write in a scholarly voice-do not use “I, you, me, my us, we, this author etc.” Avoid writing in the 1st/2nd person. You can state your opinion without using “I”. In other words, your opinion is implied by your very statement. Example-“I think this class is great” versus “This class is great”. You are still saying the exact same thing here without using “I” or “ this author”. The second, “this class is great”, is stronger. You want to keep a scholarly tone in your writing.