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1. How might you explain the fact that the female prison population is increasing at a faster rate than that for men?
2. Identify some of the pros and cons of arming probation officers. If you were a probation officer, would you want to be required to carry a firearm? What factors did you consider?
3. Make the case for whether mandatory minimum sentences, the war on drugs, and sexual predators, are examples of policy grounded in empirical, ethical, or ideological grounds. Why did you decide the way you did?
4. Given the huge negative outcome of prisoner disenfranchisement, what are some reasons to stay the course? Why are some reasons to eliminate it? If correctional supervision is "enough" punishment, why do we continue to punish after release from supervision?
5. What are the advantages and disadvantages to considering the moral legitimacy of torture under a time bomb scenario? Would you be supportive of such an approach? Why or why not?
6. Do you think the US has a better chance at "winning" the war on terror from a consequentialist or nonconsequentialist perspective? Or, would you suggest some other ethical system as a framework?
7. Discuss local examples using Rome's process model of how media imagery creates and blends with stereotypes to perpetuate the image of the criminal black male. What would be a more accurate way for the media to report the examples you are considering?
8. Consider Surette's "law of opposites". While he uses crime as an example, can you think of any other topics that also fit the characteristics of his law? For example, are there other media stories that are, for example. a prominent feature of all media, overwhelmingly about the seriousness of that topic, have characters that are generally different than those really involved in that topic, etc.
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Discuss what is meant by a letter of intent
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Write a movie review of blue valentine
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Single-period inventory system
: The restaurant you are working at makes one massive batch of ravioli each day. If you run out before the end of the day, the last few customers are less than satisfied, but if you make too much, it can be sold to the local hog farmer for feed. Every ..
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Linking motivation and performance
: Describe an instance where you were involved in a situation where you had to strategize in order to lead the group out of a crisis (e.g., at work, as a member of a sports team, debating team, etc.). Evaluate the strategies that you employed to mot..
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Cross-cultural approaches to leadership development
: Identify some of the pros and cons of arming probation officers. If you were a probation officer, would you want to be required to carry a firearm?
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Liquid natural gas-what is economic order quantity
: An energy company orders metric tons of liquid natural gas that is used at the rate of 1,000,000 metric tons per year. Delivery lead time has averaged 8 days. The annual cost to hold inventory is $50 per metric ton and each order that is placed with ..
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Create a program named bookexceptiondemo
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How much profit must be forfeited to fill this order using
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What are the global challenges of emergency management
: Conduct independent research on that topic, and prepare a 10-12 page paper discussing the topic and its relation to the emergency management field. What are the global challenges of emergency management
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