Post-arrest, the promising programs included: drug courts, drug treatment in jails, intensive supervision and aftercare of juvenile offenders, and the use of fines and other penalties in lieu of incarceration for technical violations. (Sherman, 1998 Continue Reading...
It causes more days that people are not in work and productive than any other single factor. What an astounding figure -- my mind boggles: $300 billion, or $7,500 per employee, is spent annually in America on stress-related compensation claims, decr Continue Reading...
International Issues and National Security Due to increased telecommunications, e-commerce and globalization, the world is becoming more and more of a global community everyday. However, research suggests that due to these changes in society, econo Continue Reading...
Biodiversity in Lake Baikal We are in a world where there is a continuous exploitation of natural resources and very little care about the environmental consequences. Rapid industrialization has created havoc to the delicately balanced ecosystems. T Continue Reading...
history of Pakistan and India and how they have progressed since winning independence. India and Pakistan Relations History of India and Pakistan relations There is no doubt about the fact that ever since the partition of the sub-continent that t Continue Reading...
Financing and Foreign Ownership of Real Estate in Mexico Due to the similarities of real estate transactions in general, many Americans assume that the basic real estate terms and principles of the United States also hold true in Mexico (Peyton, 200 Continue Reading...
Female Police Officers and Maternity Leave Female police officers, much like female firefighters and females in the military, are a fairly recent development and evolution in history that was long overdue and met with some resistance initially. Whil Continue Reading...
Business Decision-Making Process Decision-making through Business Environmental Scanning As a relatively new research agency in the market research industry, our firm has two main objectives for this year. The first objective is to increase profita Continue Reading...
The model assumes constant growth of dividends. The required rate of return is the discount rate. Next year's dividends are the starting point upon which the dividend growth is calculated and brought back to present value. The problem with using thi Continue Reading...
FDX Value Creation Frontier The value creation frontier "represents the maximum amount of value that the products of different companies inside an industry can give customers at any one time by using different business models" (Hill & Jones, 20 Continue Reading...
Driven: Leadership Strategy An organization needs implementation of strategy to happen on every level within the company structure in order to function. Factors such as: flexibility, creativity, openness to use of technology and innovations, commun Continue Reading...
Hilsenrath, suggests that there are several inferences, which can be drawn from the growing view that poorly informed investors can make markets less efficient than suggested by the "free market" theories of the 1980s. According to the author, the f Continue Reading...
Business Ethics Introduction (Summarize the overall viewpoint of the author, and discuss the major issues presented in the case.) In the case, the author is showing how Dennis Kozlowski and Mark Schwartz were at the top of an elaborate scheme to de Continue Reading...
To some, that suggests that college is a more viable alternative for many of those who would otherwise have sought jobs in the manufacturing sector previously. However, there are at least two reasons that such a conclusion may be invalid. First, wh Continue Reading...
independent study. It is still a broadcast-related approach to teaching and doesn't give the student an opportunity to fully participate in the learning process. Telecourses are ideal for reaching thousands or millions of students who are motivated Continue Reading...
