Expert Answers

Prepare a presentation to include the following: An evaluation of biological, social and psychological factors contributing to crime, to include the relations between personality, genetics, and poverty. Recommendations for crime control strategies based on your findings. 

Answer the following two ques: Does Rader fit the profile of serial killers described in this chapter? Why or why not? Why did Rader kill? What other motivations might serial killers have? The case: Dennis Rader (The BTK Killer) Dennis Rader was born March 9, 1945, the eldest of four brothers. After high school, he did a four-year stint in the U.S. Air Force before returning to Park City, Kansas, where he completed an undergraduate degree in administration of justice at Wichita State University in 1979. Beginning in 1974, Rader worked in a variety of positions at ADT Security Services over the next 14 years. Investigators believe that knowledge he gained in this experience later enabled him to bypass home security systems so as to break into homes undetected.i It was also in 1974 that Rader’s murderous criminal career began. On the morning of January 15, 1974, he killed four members of the Otero family, including father Joseph, mother Julie, 11-year-old Josephine, and 9-year-old Joseph II. Each victim was subjected to various acts of torture before ultimately being killed. The two males died from asphyxiation after Rader tied them up at gunpoint and placed plastic bags over their heads. The females were strangled, with Rader later reporting that the mother woke up after he thought she was dead and had to be strangled again. In court testimony many years later, he attributed the killings to sexual needs, and he apparently molested at least one of the females. The four bodies were discovered when 15-year-old Charlie Otero returned from school later that afternoon.ii The Otero murders were the start of a long series of murders. Kathryn Bright, 20, was stabbed to death just three months later, on April 4, 1974. Amazingly, her 19-year-old brother, Kevin, survived the attack by Rader despite being shot twice in the head. Almost three years elapsed before the BTK struck again on March 17, 1977, by strangling 26-year-old Shirley Vian. Uncharacteristically, the BTK locked the three young Vian children in the closet, permitting them to survive. Just nine months later, on December 8, 1977, police found Nancy Jo Fox, 25, dead in her bedroom, strangled with a nylon stocking. BTK’s final three killings occurred on April 27, 1985 (Marine Hedge), September 16, 1986 (Vicki Wegerle), and January 18, 1991 (Dolores Davis); all were strangled.iii A strange component of the BTK murders was the way the killer periodically wrote taunting letters to the local police and newspapers. His goal seemed to be to receive some kind of credit for the murders. In some writings, he expressed his indignation that other suspects were being accused of crimes he had committed or that the story of his murderous activities was not receiving adequate press coverage. “How many do I have to kill before I get my name in the paper or some national attention?” he complained in the letter in which he also coined his BTK nickname.iv Travis Heying/AP Images The frequency of the BTK letters decreased by the end of the 1980s, as he became dormant. In 1991, Rader became a Park City Compliance Officer,v where he developed a reputation as a by-the-book “bureaucratic bully.”vi In March 2004, new BTK letters began surfacing. Over the course of the next year, a total of 11 communications were received. One, which had been mailed to police on a computer floppy disk, was forensically identified as having been created on Rader’s church computer and had electronic residue that included the name Dennis. That disk led directly to Rader’s arrest on February 25, 2005. At his arraignment on May 3, Rader stood mute and a trial date of June 27 was set. Rader subsequently surprised everyone when, on June 27, he confessed in open court to the murders of ten people. In response to direct questioning from the judge, Rader recounted in chillingly graphic and dispassionate detail exactly how he had killed each of his victims. Author’s Note: Graphic testimony from Dennis Rader’s 2007 trial is available at http://www.kansas.com/news/special-reports/btk/article1003707.html.

Premise: Victim precipitation is an especially important concept when studying homicide. This chapter says that the thrust of the concept is not to blame the victim for the event, but to examine both individual and situational factors that may have contributed to and initiated the crime. 1) What kinds of individual and situational precipitating factors can you identify that might increase the likelihood of homicide victimization? Premise: As this chapter shows, the FBI began using a new definition of rape for statistical reporting purposes in 2012. 2) What was the old definition of rape? What is the new one? Why did the FBI change its definition of rape?

Examining Disparate Treatment Overview THIS WEEK, YOU READ ABOUT WORKPLACE DISCRIMINATION OR DISPARATE TREATMENT—INTENTIONAL EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION. YOU WILL EXAMINE THIS TOPIC FURTHER IN THIS ASSIGNMENT. Instructions USE THE CAPELLA LIBRARY OR INTERNET TO RESEARCH A LEGAL CASE INVOLVING DISPARATE TREATMENT IN THE SELECTION OR HIRING PROCESS. THEN IN A 3–4 PAGE PAPER, SUCCINCTLY AND CLEARLY ANALYZE THE CASE. INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING IN YOUR ANALYSIS: Describe the important issues in the case. Provide a description of the case and describe the important issues. Distinguish the theory of disparate treatment from the theory of disparate (or adverse) impact. Distinguish the theory of disparate treatment from the theory of disparate or adverse impact, using specific examples from your selected legal case and providing additional context if needed to support your work. Be sure to identify the dispute and what makes this case about disparate treatment. Analyze the outcome of the case. Explain the court's decision. Note whether you agree with the court. Analyze disparate impact. Analyze the evidence of discriminatory effects. Analyze the evidence of discriminatory effects in your selected case, and provide specific examples of connections to the rule, policy, or process. Describe how the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures help employers avoid issues related to disparate or adverse impact. Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations of members of the human resources profession. Be sure you communicate in a scholarly, professional manner that addresses the intended audience and is free of grammatical and mechanical errors.

W8: What Is Your Ethical Framework? CO-1, CO-2 PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER! During this course you have reviewed many areas of law and various ethical frameworks and applied them to both real companies and hypothetical situations. These have illustrated the ethical challenges of doing business in today's society in the U.S. and globally.  Regardless of size, a business faces governmental regulations and a myriad of issues that are often in direct conflict with the notion of making a profit. You are engaged in obtaining an MBA. These are all real issues for your consideration in the future.  PROMPT: In this week's Discussion, your main post must cover the following: Reflect on these business challenges and share what you believe to be the best ethical framework for a business operating in today's world. CSR is a philosophical paradigm but it is very broad. For your answer here focus on a specific framework such as deontology, utilitarianism, virtue ethics, ethics of care, etc., that we have studied this term, that provides a specific structure for making a decision in a given circumstance. (Look back to Week 1 Lesson in particular.)  What is your recommendation of an ethical framework for a business to be both ethical and successful?  How does your recommended framework guide decision making?  In response to each other, remember to ask questions. Use the discussion to further develop your thoughts. In considering your answers to these questions, remember to use sources from your readings and other research that are relevant to, and support, your ideas. There is no one "right" answer here, except to identify a recognized framework (other than CSR), explain how your framework  guides a decision, and why you endorse it as the best. 

the information of the case study is in the attached file  Formatting and Information Students will upload a Word document response to one of the two case study topics. Do not copy and paste from another source, including AI. The report will be scanned for plagiarism and use of AI. A cover page with the student’s name, the course name and number, the name of the assignment, the instructor’s name and the date is required. (Do not get creative with borders, fonts, or colors, see the cover page on the case as an example) Type the case study report (including header and page number) in Times New Roman, 12-point font with one-inch margins on all sides. Indented paragraph format is required. The assignment should be double-spaced, using headers and sub-headers for each question (e.g., Header = EEOC Report, Sub-header  = Claim Response, Sub-header  = Importance of Included Information…)

Lesson 11 Discussion This week's discussion will focus on the Second Great Awakening and Abolition. Assignment Objective Students will analyze and reflect on the lecture and assigned sources to offer their own assessment of the material. Please respond to two of the following prompts and leave comments for two colleagues.  Synthesizing Materials: How does abolition reflect themes of the Second Great Awakening? Use at least two examples from two assigned readings and contextualize with lecture. Include parenthetical citations. Primary Source Comparison: Compare the speeches of Frederick Douglass, Angela Grimke, and Maria Stewart. Who was the audience for each speech, what was the tone of the speech, and what were the main arguments? How did race and gender influence the speaker’s perspective? Contextualize with lecture, use specific examples, and incorporate parenthetical citations. Visual Analysis: How do we see the influence of the Second Great Awakening in the “Origins of Mormonism” document and the Camp Rider illustrations? Use specific examples, contextualize with lecture, and include parenthetical citations. Secondary Source Analysis: According to Ginzberg, how did white women's roles within moral reforms shift in the 1840s and 1850s? Discuss the ways that the Second Great Awakening and moral reforms influenced each other and conceptions of women's "moral virtue." Use specific examples and contextualize with lecture.  Lesson 12 Discussion This week's discussion will focus on 19th-century ideas about womanhood in the United States.Assignment Objective Students will analyze and reflect on the lecture and assigned sources to offer their own assessment of the material. Please respond to two of the following prompts and two colleagues.  Synthesizing Sources, Class Analysis: Discuss the experiences of working-and-middle-class families and women drawing from the Harriet Hanson Robinson primary source and the Carol Smith-Rosenberg article. Be sure to contextualize with lecture and use at least two examples from the sources and parenthetical citations. Primary Source Analysis, Race and Class Conflicts: How are the suffrage, abolition, and anti-slavery movements connected? How do you see race and class conflicts within the suffrage and abolition movements in the documents Declaration of Sentiments and “Ain’t I a Woman?” Be sure to contextualize specific examples from the sources with lecture content and use parenthetical citations. You may include materials from the optional assigned sources if you read them.  Secondary Source Analysis, Historical Memory: What do you learn about the historical process and historical memory from this lecture and Lisa Tetrault’s Epilogue? You may include examples from the optional assigned source materials if you read them. How does Tetrault’s Epilogue help you reexamine your assumptions about Seneca Falls and U.S. women’s history? Use at least two examples and parenthetical citations. Contextualize with lecture.  Primary Source Image Analysis: Do an image analysis of one of the images from lecture and answer all of the questions associated with the image (in the lecture heading) in your discussion post. Choose from American Progress, “The Sphere of a Woman”, Currier and Ives Painting 1868, America Guided by Wisdom, or James Pale Family Portrait. Be sure to use parenthetical citations. Directions Keep in mind... You should complete the reading before answering the discussion prompts.  

Compare and contrast the arguments made by Andrew Carnegie, William Graham Sumner, and Henry Demarest Lloyd. What does each seem to see as the causes of disparities of wealth? What does each seem to believe about what should be done regarding the growing gap between the rich and the poor? What similarities or differences do you observe about their ideas? Please make sure that your response consists of your own words and ideas. Avoid the use of direct quotations, and keep in mind that your task is to demonstrate your own comprehension of the material.

All instructions are attached please do it on this article. https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/25-the-cold-war/paul-robesons-appearance-before-the-house-un-american-activities-committee-1956/

Read/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: Chapters 3, 4 Lesson Minimum of 2 scholarly sources (in addition to the textbook) Instructions Review the following ethical dilemmas: JOHN DOE HAS DECIDED TO CLONE HIMSELF. HE IS STERILE. HE CANNOT FIND ANYONE TO MARRY HIM. HE WISHES TO HAVE CHILDREN. HE KNOWS THAT HE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO LOVE A CHILD THAT IS ADOPTED OR NOT CONNECTED DIRECTLY TO HIM BIOLOGICALLY. HE WILL BE MAKING USE OF A NEW PROCEDURE THAT INVOLVES TAKING HIS SKIN CELLS TO PRODUCE A TWIN. THE TWIN STARTS OUT AS AN EMBRYO AND GROWS INTO A CHILD. THE CHILD IN THIS CASE WILL HAVE THE SAME GENETIC INFORMATION AS JOHN DOE. JOHN DOE AND HIS CHILD WILL BE TWINS. Jane Doe is eighteen. For as long as she can remember she has been sexually attracted to other females. Her parents belong to a religion that has a religious text stating that God forbids one to be a lesbian. This religion goes on further to say that lesbians will be punished in the afterlife. Jane Doe is debating whether she should tell her parents about her sexual attraction. She has not yet decided if she should come out to her parents and live as a lesbian now that she is a legal adult. Joe and Mary are a couple. Before becoming sterile, they had a child. This child died of a rare disease. Joe and Mary miss their child terribly. They have heard that there is a new IVF procedure that can ensure that they can have another child. However, their religion forbids using IVF. Use the resources assigned for this week and additional research, Select two of the situations above and then address 2 of the following: What is the relation between ethics and religion? Formulate and investigate the relation. For each case, determine the ethical path of conduct. Then, determine what paths of conduct would be unethical For each case, what would an emotivism say to appraise what you determine is the ethical form of conduct? For each case, would a natural law ethicist agree with what you say is the ethical form of conduct? Why or why not? Articulate, explain, and evaluate in each case an approach that makes use of divine command ethics.