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    The Adult Offender

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    1. What has been the primary factor in the growth in the number of individuals under correctional supervision over the past twenty years? The primary factor in the growth of individuals under correctional supervision in the past twenty years has been due to tougher laws‚ correctional supervision also has a broader scope of people under supervision and there are more offenders that are sentenced with drug and property offences. Correctional supervision also includes people out on bond‚ probation and

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    Applying the Learning Curve Process Jennifer Taylor OPS-571 Operations Management October 27‚ 2010 Dr. Stephens‚ EdD Applying the Learning Curve Theory Introduction The Pizza Store Simulation provides an opportunity to manage the factors that affect wait time at Mario’s while shortening the learning curve. The measurements of critical to quality characteristics (CTQ’s) can determine defects‚ and improve the process through modifications until an acceptable wait time is reached. Success

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    Teenagers vs Adults

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    References: Carol Hoare and‚ 2006‚Handbook of Adult Development and Learning‚ Oxford University Press‚ page 136.

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    and the creation of liberal mentality. He believes that qualitative and quantitative education is substantive to democratization of culture and to the development of the country. However‚ since there were about twenty million children‚ teenagers and adults illiterate in Brazil in 1964‚ therefore the country was suffering In general‚ people do not want conflicts and to prevent such from happening‚ the minority in the society just gives way by letting themselves be conformed to the dictates of the society

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    Identify the five phases of the training process model (TPM); explain fully the process that goes on in each of the phases. A company uses a training process model to identify training issues and how to fix them‚ so the employees will poses the KSA’s needed to do their job. A triggering event occurs when a person with authority to take action recognizes that actual organizational performance (AOP) is less than the expected organizational performance (EOP). There are five steps that occur when

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    STUDENT ID: 21162896 MODULE TITLE: SAFEGUARDING AND PROTECTING VULNERABLE ADULTS. MODULE CODE: NS40018/W ESSAY TITLE: SAFEGUARDING VULNERABLE ADULTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES WHO COME IN CONTACT WITH THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. The aim of this essay is primarily to identify and discuss the reasons for and factors contributing to the vulnerability of adults with learning disabilities who come in contact with the criminal justice system. This essay will offer the rational for selecting this

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    Assignment One: Strategic planning‚ learning theory‚ and training needs analysis Strayer University ASSIGNMENT ONE Identify the five phases of the training process model (TPM); explain fully the process that goes on in each of the phases.   The five phases of the training process model are as follows; 1. Analysis Phase – In the analysis phase‚ companies determine where there are performance gaps and how they will address those gaps. They must determine whether the performance

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    Zoltan Dienes’ six-stage theory of learning mathematics Stage 1. Most people‚ when confronted with a situation which they are not sure how to handle‚ will engage in what is usually described as “trial and error” activity. What they are doing is to freely interact with the situation presented to them. In trying to solve a puzzle‚ most people will randomly try this and that and the other until some form of regularity in the situation begins to emerge‚ after which a more systematic problem solving

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    Trying Juveniles as Adults

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    Trying Juveniles as Adults If your son or daughter were killed by a seventeen-year-old‚ would you be able to accept the fact that the murderer would be walking the streets again in less than a year because the law allows those under eighteen to be tried as juveniles? Forty-four states and Washington‚ DC‚ passed several laws between 1992 and 1997 enabling the judiciary to transfer juveniles to the adult court system. Today‚ murders committed by adults have decreased over 18%‚ but murders by juveniles

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    One theory of attachment that behaviourists such as Dollard and Miller (1950) have put forward is Learning Theory‚ this theory believes that all behaviours are acquired though learning which takes place through classical and operant conditioning. Learning theory provides explanations on how attachments between the caregiver and baby are formed‚ one explanation is through classical conditioning; learning by association. This is based upon Pavlov’s work with dogs in 1927. Before conditioning an unconditioned

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