This assignment will provide an overview of the main justifications for punishment and essentially discuss the moral and political arguments for and against punishment. A constant theme that will run throughout will be the Utilitarian philosophy of punishment. Utilitarianism is forward-looking and therefore seeks to prevent the reoccurrence of crime. This is generally achieved through Deterrence‚ Rehabilitation and Incapacitation with all too some extent playing a vital role in the criminal justice
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Individual Punishment Philosophy Paper Robert J. Lawson CJS/220 April 13‚ 2014 Steven J. Weber There are four types of punishment philosophies that are used in the court system. Deterrence Theory is often used as a goal to deter criminal sentencing by placing fear in the criminal of the punishment they could receive. This particular theory is to try and rationalize with the criminal of how freedom from jail could be beneficial to them oppose to receiving jail time for the crime
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Week 8 Checkpoint 1. Assault: When someone attempts to harm or threatens someone else. 2. Breach of Confidentiality: Is when information has been released to someone who is not authorized to have it‚ or without the patients consent. 3. Battery: Touching a person without their permission. 4. Burden of Proof: Is the responsibility to prove harm or wrongdoing. 5. Defendant: This is the person that is being sued‚ or needs to defend themselves in court. 6. Contempt
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Checkpoint Week 8 John McManamon IRN: 9048277815 IT/205 4/16/2014 John Gosney 1. How important is the reservation system at airlines such as WestJet and JetBlue? How does it impact operational activities and decision making? As an employee of an oil company‚ I am keenly aware that the price of gulf coast kerosene (jet fuel) is almost $3.00 per gallon. With an estimated 30‚000 flights per day in the US alone‚ there is a tremendous amount of money spent by planes idling at the gate‚ or on
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Week 8 Product Life Cycle Homework Directions: Using the structure below [and you may need more bullets for each marketing mix element]‚ find a real world [non-text] example for each stage of the product life cycle and identify the marketing mix elements for that stage. Introduction Example: Smart Car Product Strategy Engineered and designed to help you master your city “Fun wheel drive”- targeting young‚ environmentally conscience adults‚ interested in spending less on gas and more on “fun”
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Week 8- Time Value of Money Critical Thinking 5.1 “A dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow’ because todays dollar can be invested to earn interest or spent. Because of this fact‚ an entity requires compensation through interest‚ for deferring consumption (spending). The value of that dollar invested grows over time and the interest rate reflects the trade-off between spending today versus saving. 5.5 Compounding: Is concerned with finding the future value of an investment. Is
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Week Eight Object-Oriented Design and Programming Identify both the top-level objects and the GUI interfaces of an electronic product. Describe object-oriented‚ event-driven programming. Describe a simple‚ object-oriented program. Recognize the difference between object-oriented and structured program design. Course Assignments 1. CheckPoint: Interfaces and Communication Messages Understanding object-oriented methodologies is often difficult. You already understand
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According to Wikipedia‚ an appeal is a petition for review of a case that has been decided by a court of law. The petition is made to a higher court for the purpose of overturning the lower court’s decision. Appeals are made on the basis of matters of law‚ not fact. What this means is that the legal basis for an appeal must be a claim that the law was misapplied‚ either substantively or procedurally. An appeal cannot be made on the basis of disputes about the facts of the case‚ or dislike for the
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Week 8 Assignment: Wireless Signals For a while in the past‚ we refer the wireless technology as cellular phones. But now‚ the term "wireless" refers to more varied devices & technologies‚ like smartphones‚ computers‚ printers‚ headphones and even speakers that connects together in different ways. Today’s wireless phones for example‚ may include data packets like 3G & 4G cellular radio signals‚ Wi-Fi and even Bluetooth technologies‚ these technologies have advance in a fast pace that investing
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Philosophy of Punishment: Deterrence General and Specific Sentencing Model: Indeterminate Sentencing For the philosophy of punishment I chose deterrence‚ specifically because of the goals and benefit this philosophy. The deterrence punishment is divided in to two separate categories. First on is the general deterrence‚ the goal of general deterrence is to prevent non-offenders (those who’ve not committed a crime) from committing crimes by exposing non-offenders to the reality
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