Discussion: Open Forum

When analyzing the evidence, what questions come to mind about the crime, the offender, and the victim? During this Open Forum, consider what information you may need to determine the concepts related to the 

• Review the evidence of the course case, looking at concepts related to the offense.
• What things would you like to know related to the offense?
• As you review the documents, are there other issues surfacing?

READING MATERIAL

Bartol, C. R. & Bartol, A. M. (2010). Criminal & behavioral profiling. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

• Chapter 5, “Profiling Applied to Specific Crimes” (pp. 129–170)

Turvey, B. E. (2012). Criminal profiling: An introduction to behavioral evidence analysis (4th ed.). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

• Chapter 6, “An Introduction to Crime Scene Analysis” (pp. 141–162)
• Chapter 11, “An Introduction to Crime Reconstruction” (pp. 253–286)
• Chapter 12, “Crime Scene Characteristics” (pp. 287–310)
• Chapter 18, “Psychopathy and Sadism: Interpreting Psychopathic and Sadistic Behavior in the Crime Scene” (pp. 447–480)

Schlesinger, L. B. (2009). Psychological profiling: Investigative implications from crime scene analysis. Journal of Psychiatry & Law, 37(1), 73–84.

SECOND ASSIGMENT 

Assignment: Investigating a Crime: Phase II – Concepts Related to the Offense

What does the analysis of evidence tell us about the general nature of the crime, the offender’s knowledge of the location of the crime, the risk level for the offender, the level of risk of the victim, and the relationship between the victim and offender? The analysis of the concepts related to the offense can help determine if the crime was organized or disorganized. It can also determine motive and intent.

In this Assignment you start Phase II of the criminal investigative analysis process by analyzing the evidence of the criminal report from the perspective of the offense.

To prepare for the Assignment:

• Review the evidence in the criminal report from the perspective of the offense.

By Day 7

In a 2- to 3-page analysis of the offense:

Summarize

• The victim’s action during the offense
• The offender’s action during the offense
• Any victim/offender interaction before, during, and after the offense

Explain any

• Motive
• Staging
• Modus operandi
• Intent
• Premeditation
• Affective violence
• Predatory violence
• Expressive/instrumental violence
• Signature/ritual

Finally, explain whether the crime was organized or disorganized. Support your conclusion with references to the specific evidence.

 

Uber is largely hailed as the advent of the gig economy, which is the idea that people will not work for any one employer, but instead will work on projects for any variety of companies desiring their services.  While creating a new type of entrepreneurship for individuals, it raises a host of new legal questions for companies around the law of agency.

An investment firm has asked you to evaluate Uber’s legal exposure for the conduct of its drivers.

Write an interoffice memo in which you:

1. Summarize the main principles of agency law and the term “scope of employment.”  How is this term applicable when it comes to Uber and its business and the liability for its drivers?
2. Recently, an Uber driver lost control and killed his passengers.  The driver was drunk.  Should Uber be liable for the conduct of its driver in this situation? Why or why not? Use the law of Agency to back up your argument. 
3. Identify the steps Uber should take to limit its legal exposure for the conduct of its drivers.
4. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment, one being the textbook. Note: Wikipedia is not an acceptable reference and proprietary Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Your Memo should include a heading, summary statement, background and recommendations. See the link for information on formatting. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/590/04/

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze and apply the concepts of ethical decision making,  corporate governance and  corporate social responsibility.
• Analyze and evaluate Agency Law pursuant to the employer and employee.
• Analyze and evaluate laws and regulations relative to product safety, liability and representations.
• Write clearly and concisely about law, ethics, and corporate governance using proper writing

For this assignment, you will reconstruct the four dimensions of diversity. Discuss each dimension, and then choose two to three characteristics of that dimension and offer an analysis of the considerations for those characteristics.

For example, in discussing the internal dimension, you choose the characteristic of the age. There are several considerations regarding age, particularly among multi-generational workers:

• Preferences in modes and frequency of feedback.
• Attitudes toward technology and its use in communication (i.e., social media).
• Motivation tends to differ for a person depending on where they are in their career (e.g., at the beginning of their career and looking to move up the corporate ladder, or nearing retirement).

This assignment will require you to think outside of the box and consider aspects of diversity that you may not have considered before.

Support your assignment with at least three scholarly or professional resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.

Length: 3-5 pages, not including title and reference pages

References:  Include a minimum of 3 scholarly resources.

Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards.

Charlie Dee is a 56-year-old male client with a 30-year history of smoking two packs of cigarettes per day. He is seeing nurse practitioner Sandra Gee for the first time after being diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Pattern appraisal begins with eliciting the client’s description of his experience with this disease, his perceptions of his health, and how the disease is expressed (symptoms). Mr. Dee states that he has a productive cough that is worse in the morning, gets short of breath whenever he is physically active, and always feels tired. Through specific questions, the nurse practitioner discovers that Mr. Dee has experienced a change in his sleep patterns and nutritional intake. He is sleeping for shorter periods and eating less. She also learns that Mr. Dee’s wife smokes, and that they have indoor cats for pets. He does not think that his wife will be amenable to changing her habits or getting rid of the cats. During this appraisal, the nurse seeks to discover what is important to Mr. Dee and how he defines healthy.

Mutual patterning involves sharing knowledge and offering choices. Upon completion of the appraisal, the nurse summarizes what she has been told and how she understands it. In this way, the nurse and the client can reach consensus about what activities would be acceptable to Mr. Dee. Ms. Gee provides information about the disease and suggestions that will increase his comfort. Noninvasive interventions include breathing retraining, recommendations for a high-protein high-calorie diet, eating smaller meals more frequently, sleeping with the head elevated, and using progressive relaxation exercises at bedtime. The nurse recommends that the Dees buy a high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter and humidifier to assist in removing environmental pollutants and maintaining proper humidity in the home.

Because Mr. Gee has expressed a desire to quit smoking, the nurse suggests that he use forms of centering, such as guided imagery and meditation, to supplement the nicotine patches prescribed by his physician. She also provides him with written material about the disease that he can share with his wife. At the end of the visit, Mr. Dee states that he feels better knowing that he has the power to change some things about his life.

Critical thinking activities

1. Review two published research articles with Rogerian science as the framework guiding the research process. Identify the middle-range theory that was developed or guided the research process in each of the articles.

2. What is the nature of the evidence generated by research of the middle-range theory in critical thinking activity 1?

3. What philosophical tenets from Nightingale contributed to the basis for development of the Rogerian conceptual model?

4. Locate three publications and discuss how the authors used Rogerian science in nursing education.

5. Analyze your clinical practice, and identify areas in which practice based on Rogerian science would improve nursing care. Enumerate the changes and the anticipated positive outcomes.

Here is an example of a question along with a possible answer. Please note the format.  Please do not write your answers in the standard block paragraph format!This is by no means the perfect answer.  It could certainly be better.  But, I wanted to give you a sense of what I am looking for in an answer.Question:Please thoroughly and completely explain the law of demand.  Answer:Definition of the law of demandoDemand is a schedule or curve that shows the various amounts of a product that consumers are willing and able to purchase at each of a series of possible prices during a specified period of time.The law of demand tells us that there is an inverse relationship between price and quantity demanded.  This is supported by the following three concepts:  Diminishing marginal utility which means consumption of successive units of a particular product will yield less and less marginal utility.  oMarginal utility –the change inutility that results from a one-unit change in the consumption of a good or service.oThe income effect -which means that a lower price increases the purchasing power of the buyers money income allowing the buyer to purchase more of the product than before.oThe substitution effect -which means that at a lower price buyers are motivated to substitute what is now a less expensive product for similar products that are now relatively more expensive.The law of demand is graphically represented as a downward sloping curve. An increase in demand is expressed graphically as a shift of the demand curve to the right while a decrease in demand is expressed as a shift of the demand curve to the left.  An increase or decrease in quantity demanded is represented as a movement alone a given demand curve and is caused by an increase or decrease of the price of the product.A demand curve will shift as a result of a change in one of the determinants of demand which are: Buyer tastes –a change in tastes can cause buyers to demand more, or less of a productNumber of buyers –an increase in the number of buyers will result in an increase in the demand for a productIncome –a.If income increases and the demand for a good increases, that good is called a normal good.b.If income increases and the demand for a good decreases, that good is called an inferior goodExpectations –expectations of buyers will impact demand.  If the buyer expects the price of the product to increase, this would likely cause a decrease in demand for the product.Prices of related goods –a.If the price of a good increases, we would expect the demand for the substitute good to increase.b.If the price of a good increases, we would expect the demand for its complement to decrease.Price of non-related goods –a price change for one good would have no impact on the demand for the other good.

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