Artifact: A recent (no older than 2020) link to a news story about an irregular operation or event at a U.S. prison (a riot, staff/inmate death, escape, etc.). 2. Think: Conside
Q1: (C Mitchell)
Provide a substantive answer to the questions below. Then respond to at least two post from your classmates. Feel free to find, use, and cite other sources related to the Chapter topic that further support your answers.
- Thinking critically - does the author make any points or use specific terms throughout the Chapter that you disagree with? If so, why?
- Based on your understanding of the reading... Is a wall or fence a viable solution for securing the U.S. Southern Border?
- What could a bad actor to avoid a border barrier?
Q2:
1. Artifact: A recent (no older than 2020) link to a news story about an irregular operation or event at a U.S. prison (a riot, staff/inmate death, escape, etc.).
2. Think: Consider the criteria used to classify correctional clients, such as offense history, risk of future criminal behavior, and treatment needs. What potential challenges arise from focusing too heavily on one classification criterion over others?
3. Opinion: Based on your understanding, which type of correctional client (e.g., situational offenders, substance abusers, or the mentally ill) do you think presents the most significant challenge to the corrections system? Why? How could correctional facilities better address the needs of this client group?
Q3 (D Mitchell)
After watching the Memorial hospital video and the ICS leadership videos discuss what role you see leadership playing in disaster preparedness for an organization such as a hospital, school system, industry etc that you may work for in the future.
Q4
Toxic Industrial Chemicals (TICs) are chemicals that are used to make our life better with technology. Unfortunately as we have read about this week they can be very dangerous if misused or intentionally released to the atmosphere. Watch the videos of TIC accidents such as Bhopal, Chernobyl, Lac-Mégantic or other industrial accident. Discuss the impact and problems by the accident. What could have been done to prevent or minimize the consequences?\
Q5
Why is Dürer compared to Leonardo da Vinci? What similarities do they share? How are they different? Whose work do you prefer and why? Use specific examples of each artist's work to support your opinion and discussionYou may choose a work of sculpture, painting, or architecture, but you must make sure you explain your choice. Support your discussion with fully identified visual evidence (images), Make sure that the images are inserted in your response. Images should be visible in the post and not need to be downloaded!
Q6
Discuss the two topics. Make sure that the images are inserted in your response. Images should be visible in the post and not need to be downloaded!
1. The Prehistoric Aegean,
2. 2.Cycladic sculptures
Q7 (cooper)
we discuss the use of crosstabulations (crosstabs) as a preliminary analysis to begin investigating the relationship between the IV and DV. A crosstab creates a "snapshot" of our data. Measures of association help to identify the strength and direction of the potential relationship.
You are now going to create and post a crosstab of your variables and a measures of association table.
Complete the following steps:
- Post a brief explanation of your topic. Include your research question and a broad research hypothesis -- that is, the relationship of IV to DV. (For example, educational attainment affects family income in US adults.)
- Run a crosstab on your variables. Be sure to explain your findings, including a description of the table, a calculation of the epsilons, and a discussion of the 10% rule.
- Run the correct measure of association for your variables (Choose one - either Pearson R, Gamma, Phi, Cramer's V or Lambda). Explain what the output means in terms of strength and direction of the relationship. Interpret Proportional Reduction of Error (PRE) using the following statement: Knowing the IV will reduce error in predicting the DV by *%.
Copy the crosstab and measure of association table into the discussion window or into a document (PDF, MS Word) and attach to discussion. If your table does not fit to the page, choose "copy special" and then "images" or take a screen shot of the table to copy/past into the window.
Special note:
When a variable is continuous (interval/ratio level of measurement), for example age of respondent, we do not run crosstabs directly because it will result in a really spread-out table with lots of zeros and low frequency cells. Such a crosstab does not help us understand the data. The correct way is to reduce the level of measurement to either ordinal level or nominal level (group the numbers into categories) by recoding and then run the crosstab. (Please refer to the Lesson Recoding in SPSS for further information.)
As a reminder, here are the guidelines for choosing your measure of association:
- Both DV and IV are nominal variables: Lambda (when it is not a 2X2 table)
- Both DV and IV are nominal variables and it is a 2X2 table: Phi
- Both DV and IV are ordinal variables: Gamma
- One variable ordinal or interval/ratio AND the other variable dichotomous nominal (like Yes/No, male/female, etc.): Gamma
- One variable ordinal or interval/ratio AND the other variable nominal (not dichotomous, has more than 2 categories): Cramer's V.
- Both DV and IV are I/R variables: Pearson's r
Q8
Managing stress in a family today is important. Explain some of the reasons families experience stress and what are positive ways to reduce that stress?
Are there any areas where you think parenting today, in general, is lacking? While this could be a long list, make sure you include one of these three topics in your reply- nutrition, sleep, media availability. Please explain why?
Support your writing with facts and outside information. Your post cannot be solely opinion.
Q9
Explain why change control is considered a process. Discuss how the critical chain method is used to control a project. Discuss how cost control can be accomplished using contracts. Discuss why updating project forecasts would be necessary.
Q10
Prisons and jails are both classified as correctional facilities, however, their missions and day-to-day operations can vary significantly. The types of offenders being held and the reasons for their incarceration are notably different.
Q11
areas in which you submit police departments have been found to be defective or deficient concentrating on i.e., constitutional due process, civil rights, use of deadly force and police brutality, abuse of discretion, corruption and police-community relations. In doing so, generalize about any possible solutions to these problems and reforming the criminal justice system.
Q12
Why is knowing (or estimating) the product demand so crucial for a firm? What are the differences between estimating and forecasting demand?
In your response, include an example of a business that has suffered from poorly forecasting the demand of its products. Evaluate how or why the business made such a mistake.
Q13
- Identify the symptoms of stress experienced by law enforcement personnel and how can stress impact their work?
- How does PTSD affect police officers and what can departments do to help officers experiences PTSD
Q14
Compare and contrast these three roles. As part of your comparison, discuss the unique characteristics of each leadership style as it relates to law enforcement administration.
Conclude by explaining which of the three styles, in your opinion, is most effective for today's police leaders and why you chose that particular style.
Q15
At University Hospital, the Database Management Systems (DBMS) administrator is responsible for creating and maintaining databases. Several departments have asked him to develop a process to keep track of all the data they document. In the past, they have had problems creating a system that modeled well and supported end-user access. The database administrator must create a way to track all the data in the organization.
- What steps should the DBMS administrator take to ensure the information is organized and stored for easy access?
- Explain your steps.
Q16
This week we will examine important health indicator rates of countries. You will use the World Bank Data found here: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator#topic-8.
Scroll down to the topic "Health" and choose one (1) of the following indicators:
Adolescent fertility rate (births per 1,000 women ages 15-19)
Maternal mortality ratio (modeled estimate, per 100,000 live births)
Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births)
Mortality rate, under-5 (per 1,000 live births)
Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12-23 months)
When you click on the health indicator of your choice, you will see a table with a list of 247 countries in the first column and dates in the top row. Look at the most recent year data and choose one (1) country to compare to the U.S.
State the year, rates of the indicator you chose for both the U.S. and the country you chose, as well as the name of the country. Include the units for the rates (ex. 6 deaths per 100,000 women) and discuss what it means and how they were calculated. Discuss the similarity/difference in these rates and why you believe the similarity/difference occurs?
Your post title should include the health indicator you chose and the country you chose to compare to the U.S. Try not to repeat indicator/country combinations as there are many to choose from; however, if you do post one that was already selected that is okay.