Describe aspects of an agency’s culture that can influence discretion.

Identify the discretionary decision.
What must you decide in the situation?
What are the possible outcomes of this decision?
Explain how laws can limit or rely on discretion.
How does the Rhode Island statute affect the decision making process for this situation? Does it limit discretion or rely on it? How?
Describe aspects of an agency’s culture that can influence discretion.
Explain how the amount of discretion can impact a decision.
What amount of discretion is the officer given in this situation?
How does it impact their decision making process?
Describe differences between the processes of internal and external decision making.
What decisions are made internally?
What decisions are made externally?
What are the differences?
Situation 2:
Identify the discretionary decision.
What must you decide in the situation?
What are the possible outcomes of this decision?
Explain how laws can limit or rely on discretion.
How does the Rhode Island statute affect the decision making process for this situation? Does it limit discretion, or rely on it? How?
Describe aspects of an agency’s culture that can influence discretion.
Explain how the amount of discretion can impact a decision.
What amount of discretion is the officer given in this situation?
How does it impact their decision making process?
Describe differences between the processes of internal and external decision making:
What decisions are made internally?
What decisions are made externally?
What are the differences?

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