What impact does substance use and addiction play on the criminal justice system?

What impact does substance use and addiction play on the criminal justice system?

Utilizing current statistics what do the figures tell you about the impact of substance use and addiction on the criminal justice system from the standpoint of arrest, courts, jail or corrections, probation or parole and re-entry into society?

If you could do anything about combining the criminal justice and addiction treatment systems together to intervene with the addicted offender population-WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

Discuss how can information practitioners/professionals contribute to the progress of sustainable development goals in the contemporary information society?

Write an essay that responds to the following question:

How can information practitioners/professionals contribute to the progress of sustainable development goals in the contemporary information society?

As a starting point, you can review the content of:

Ziemba, E. (2019). The contribution of ICT adoption to the sustainable information society, Journal of Computer Information Systems, 59(2), 116-126.

Also have a look at additional resources such as:

The Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG) in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/
IFLA International Advocacy Programme (IAP) https://www.ifla.org/libraries-development
ALIA and the Sustainable Development Goals https://www.alia.org.au/advocacy-and-campaigns/think-global-act-local
CILIP and the Sustainable Development Goals https://www.cilip.org.uk/page/SustainableDevelopmentGoals

Also other sites as applicable to have a general idea about sustainable development and its links to other concepts such as diversity, social inclusion, social justice and digital divide. You will also need to search additional external literature for supporting evidence and resources for your argument. References are not included in word count.
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This assessment task will assess the following learning outcome/s:

be able to analyse and synthesise issues and concepts relating to the information society and knowledge economy.
be able to critically apply their understanding of the social, legal, cultural and ethical issues relating to information in society.
be able to evaluate the role of the information professional in the information society.
be able to demonstrate the significance and impact of diversity to work constructively and respectfully in the information society.

Write a 1-2 paragraph Eulogy for each of these points in your life to be delivered at your Funeral/Memorial service.

Contemplate your death at this moment in your life (Present) and at the end of a long life (Future). Write a 1-2 paragraph Eulogy for each of these points in your life to be delivered at your Funeral/Memorial service. What will love ones, friends, and others want to remember about you.? Write in the 3rd person as though someone was talking about you. Use this form ONLY!
MY EULOGY (PRESENT)
MY EULOGY (FUTURE)
WHAT DO YOU WISH TO HAPPEN TO YOUR BODY AFTER YOUR DEATH? IE; BURIAL, CREMATION, ORGAN DONOR.

In what ways might a firm’s suppliers improve or undermine the firm’s Lean efforts? Provide an example to illustrate this situation.

1. SAP is a world leader in ERP systems software and has developed tailored ERP systems for many different industries. Go to the SAP Website (https://www.sap.com/index.html) and examine solutions for (1) a service industry and (2) a manufacturing industry of your choice. How are they similar? How are they different?

2. In what ways might a firm’s suppliers improve or undermine the firm’s Lean efforts? Provide an example to illustrate this situation.

3. In your own words, describe quality. Why is it so important that a company produces a quality product or service? Why can two people perceive the same product or service as having different quality levels? From a business perspective, whose perception of your product or service quality is most important? Why?

In describing your variables and how you’ve conceptualized and operationalized them, you need to clearly indicate the level of measurement utilized, and why that decision matters for your study.

1). Imagine that you were designing a study. You have a solid plan to draw your sample (using probability methods, of course) and gigantic grant to fund the whole project. What are the key variables that you intend to study? More specifically, what is the primary independent variable, and the primary dependent variable, and what the key control variables do you need to measure and include? In answering the question, you should walk me through the important stages of measurement ranging from conceptualization to operationalization of variables. Additionally, iIFinally, how will you know if your measures are reliable and valid? How will you test that empirically?

Describe the relationships between (1) culture and disease; (2) cities and disease; (3) environmental change and disease; and (4) human ecology and disease.

• What is “Karl Polanyi’s Paradox”? What are “negative externalities”? And what are “global commodity chains”? What are examples of each within the global culture of capitalism?
• What are the basic questions to ask about patterns of disease at any point in time and space?
• Describe the relationships between (1) culture and disease; (2) cities and disease; (3) environmental change and disease; and (4) human ecology and disease.
• What defines a “signature disease” of a specific historical time and pattern of geographic connections? How is Covid-19 an example of a signature disease?
• What are arguments–including the relevance of “Karl Polanyi’s Paradox”, “global commodity chains,” and “negative externalities”– for healthcare as a global public good (and as a human right), as opposed to healthcare as an individual, commodified choice?

Global Commodity Chain Examples (see also course syllabus)
• “The Palm Oil Effect”
https://www.vogue.com/projects/13535833/palm-oil-controversy-beauty-products-ingredient-sourcing-deforestation-climate-change/
• “Commodifying Nature”
http://www.uky.edu/~tmute2/nature-society/password-protect/ENS201-2015-lecture-PDFs/ENS201-commodification-CCs-shrimp.pdf
• “’Food Chains’ Looks at The Real Cost of Your Cheap Tomatoes”

“Food Chains” Looks at the Real Cost of Your Cheap Tomatoes


• “Migrant Workers in U.S. Seafood Industry”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/us-seafood-workers-abuse-immgration-temporary-labor
• “Factory Farms: Animal Cruelty, Labor Exploitation”
https://sraproject.org/factory-farms-abuse-animals/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/05/11/i-had-to-wear-pampers-many-poultry-industry-workers-allegedly-cant-even-take-bathroom-breaks/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5535e7aaa7c1
• “Suburban Lawns”
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/news-blog/the-suburban-lawn-enemy-of-lakes-oc-2009-08-19/
• “Exploited Indian Child Cotton Workers”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-16639391
• “Bangladesh Factory Fire and Workers”
http://theconversation.com/five-years-after-deadly-factory-fire-bangladeshs-garment-workers-are-still-vulnerable-88027
• “Ugly Beautiful? Counting the Cost of the Global Fashion Industry”
http://geography.org.uk/download/GA_GeogCrewe.pdf
• “Domestic Workers Abuse/Exploitation”

• “Janitorial Workers Abuse/Exploitation”

Univision Exposes Sexual Abuse of Women Working in the Janitorial Industry – “Rape on the Night Shift / Violación de un Sueño: Jornada Nocturna” Airs Saturday, June 20, 2015


• “The World’s Trash Crisis, and Why Americans Are Oblivious”
http://www.latimes.com/world/global-development/la-fg-global-trash-20160422-20160421-snap-htmlstory.html

Describe what you expect to find and/or what you think would be interested in learning.

Answer the following discussion prompts in a Word document and upload it here.

To review grading rubric- go to Course Management- Rubrics.

-Describe what you expect to find and/or what you think would be interested in learning.

-Describe how you plan to go about your research.

Answers should have at least 5 sentences to be eligible for full credit.

-List and define the five sociological concepts you will use to understand your topic from a sociological perspective.

Example:

Power is the ability to exercise one’s will over others (Weber 1922).

-Identify the sociological theory you will apply to your topic and explain in 3-5 sentences how you will apply it.

Example:

I will be using the symbolic interaction theory to understand technology. The media create and spread symbols that become the basis for our shared understanding of society.

-Identify the three sources including your text that you will use to complete your project. The sources should be formatted using APA guidelines. Help with citations and reference formatting- https://owl.purdue.edu

Example

Harper, C.L. & Leicht, K.T. (2011). Exploring social change: America and the World (6thed). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson