How would you achieve general deterrence?

Choose one of the scenarios below and answer the following questions using a minimum of 350 words and a maximum of 500: (1) If you were the judge, how would you achieve specific deterrence? (2) How would you achieve general deterrence? (3) Is your decision consistent with Beccaria’s arguments on the certainty, celerity (swiftness), and severity of punishment? 1.  You are a police officer and you are buying a cup of coffee at the local “Stop and Rob” convenience store. You see a juvenile male place a quart of milk inside his jacket. You approach the person and tell him to open his jacket. He complies. He apologizes for his actions. He explains that he could not afford to buy the milk but he needs it for his child. He promises not to do it again and asks you to let him go. 2. Laura has had a hard day at work. Before going home, she decides to stop at a local bar and have a couple of drinks. After consuming several drinks, she decides to drive home. She runs a red light and crashes head-on into another vehicle. The two occupants of the other vehicle are killed. One of the occupants of the car was 6 months pregnant at the time of the crash. Laura’s blood alcohol content was .18. She has a previous conviction for Driving Under the Influence (DUI). 3. John and Amy have been in a relationship for 10 years. Amy has grown tired of the relationship and has been having an affair with another man for the last 6 months. Amy and her lover make a plan to kill her husband. Amy takes out a $500,000 life insurance policy on her husband. Several weeks later, her lover breaks into Amy’s house and shoots and kills her husband. He takes a few valuables from the house to make it look like a burglary. 4. You and your partner are dispatched to a domestic dispute. When you arrive, you hear loud voices inside the house. You knock on the door and announce that you are with the police department. A small-framed male answers the door. You advise him that you’ve received a call about a domestic dispute. You notice that the man has a small amount of blood dripping from his lower lip, which also appears to be bruised. You ask the man if he is okay or in need of medical attention. He advises you that he and his “roommate” have had a little fight that “got out of hand.” A larger male is standing in the kitchen and he seems irritated that you are there. He speaks up and says “We were arguing and I lost my temper a little.” The smaller male advises you that he does not need medical attention and that he does not want to press charges.

“The Cask of Amontillado” Why does Montresor wait 50 years to talk of the murder?

For this discussion, read Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”  (Links to an external site.)  and Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried.”  (Links to an external site.)  It is important to be an active reader by taking notes. Make sure you spend time reading stories before beginning the discussion so that you can create a well-developed response.  Helpful Resources:  Point of View (Slide Presentation)  (Links to an external site.) Style, Tone, and Language (Slide Presentation)  (Links to an external site.) Also, do not forget what you learned from weeks 2-5 week’s readings.    Initial Post:  You must respond to one question from “The Cask of Amontillado” and one question from “The Things They Carried” Make sure you are using evidence from the story to support your points.  “The Cask of Amontillado” Why does Montresor wait 50 years to talk of the murder? How might the story differ if it was told the morning after burying Fortunato? How would the story have been different if it was told in the third person? Do you think you are sympathetic to Montresor since it was in the first person? “The Things They Carried” What is the purpose of the long paragraphs? What is the purpose of the short paragraphs? “They used a hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness” (para. 68). What does this mean? How does it affect the story and your perception of the characters in the story?

Explain current trends that might cause this development to increase (or decrease) in support and interest.

Option 2: Crowdsourcing for the Assignment Find a scholarly article on the historical development of feminist psychology, LGBTQ psychology, Black psychology, positive psychology, or indigenous psychology. You can use this article and the ones your fellow learners find to help you prepare for the assignment this week. Once you have found your article, complete the following: In your subject line, clearly indicate the area of your focus. Link your article to your post. You can attach it as a PDF or share the URL. Summarize the article in one paragraph. Describe societal, cultural, or historical forces that led to this development. Explain current trends that might cause this development to increase (or decrease) in support and interest.

Why does a concept seem especially important?

Requirements for a single reading: 1) A summary should be approximately 300-500 words, and it should be submitted prior to class each week. 2) A summary should consist of two paragraphs: One paragraph should summarize the reading and the second paragraph should provide a reaction/analysis to the reading. 3) At the end of your summary, please include at least one discussion question that we can take up in class. Your discussion questions should also be posted online through the Course Site discussion board so that the whole class can read and think about the questions prior to class. Guidance: A single paragraph of summary should explain what the reading is about. If the author is making a theoretical argument, the summary should include an explanation of what the argument is, how the author makes it. If the author is providing an answer to an empirical question, you should explain how the question is being answered, what evidence is being used, what the findings are. If the author is telling an historical story, you should briefly describe the time period covered, what the author seems to think is important about the time period, or any other important theme the seems to want to bring out in the text. A single paragraph of reaction/analysis should involve a deeper probing of some important point in the text. It requires that you reflect on the text and connect it to something important in environmental policy. As the course evolves, you may develop your own questions that shape this part of the reading assignment. For example, I’m generally interested in how environmental policies distribute environmental protection or access to environmental goods across different groups of people, so when I react to a reading, if often is a reflection on what the reading tells me about issues of equity and distribution, or the lack of concern about such issues. If there is not some probing question that emerges for you, that’s fine too. Another way to approach the reaction/analysis component of this assignment is to probe a particular concept, assumption, question, or argument the author is addressing. Why does a concept seem especially important? What assumption(s) is the author making and do you agree with it/them? Why is a question an author raises important (to society, to you, to a field of scholarship, to addressing environmental problems, etc.)? Is the author’s argument, evidence, or findings, convincing? Why or why not?

Explain at least two effective uses of the literacy assessments and where improvement might be necessary.

Post your evaluation of two district-level or school-level literacy assessments in your setting. Stakeholders in the school or district want to know how these assessments can be used to measure student growth and achievement. Provide an explanation of data or evidence that might support the use of these assessments. Explain at least two effective uses of the literacy assessments and where improvement might be necessary. I will attached a document to this. Go to the Grand City Community and click into Chester Middle School. Review the following scenario: Grade-level data and consider the perspective of reading specialist, Shane Tatum.Research literacy assessments in your educational setting and consider the data generated from these assessments.From the literacy assessments you researched in your educational setting, select two literacy assessments to evaluate.Consider how literacy assessments measure student growth and achievement.