Sexual Abuse Research Papers Samples For Students

New innovations comes with it new challenges. However, the solution to all the challenges lies within the same innovations. Identity theft can be said to have hit fever pitch with the current wave of technological innovations (Bruno, 12). Cases of identity theft have been reported for a long time now. Identity theft can be defined as stealing of someone else’s identification details without permission. It is a common kind of crime that is manifesting itself in different forms all over the world. In America, cases related to identity theft have been on the rise. It is thought that at least ...

The United States of America has three cardinal branches of the criminal justice system. These include law enforcement agencies like the police, the courts system and the correctional system. Given that it is a democratic country, the United States’ criminal justice system is founded on the tenets of the rule of law. Therefore, all these three critical organs of the government must carry out their constitutional and statutory mandate within the confines of federal and state laws. Indeed, the criminal justice system is configured in a way that it enables both levels of government to function in an efficacious ...

Is Affirmative Consent the Answer to Sexual Assault on College Campuses?

The following paper deals with a Senate Bill 967 that is proposed to control the number of sexual assaults occur on campus the public as well as private universities of California. A Senate Bill 967 has been introduced by Senator Kevin de Leon, and the objective of this law is to establish certain criteria following which the public and private colleges in California will manage with the sexual assault incidents occurred on campus. The law requires all the universities and colleges in California to pass a mandate ensuring that all of the students will give an active or affirmative consent before ...

One of the aspects that were of interest to me in this article was the strategies that are put to ensure that there are efforts made in acquiring informed consent from persons with intellectual disabilities. Through analyzing the article, I wanted to understand new ideas that could possibly improve the manner of conducting the research that involve persons with intellectual disabilities. Through proper analysis and examining the mythology used, I wanted to establish an effective strategy for ensuring informed consent among persons with intellectual in regard to their medical condition.

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The United States of America criminal justice system remains in state of continual change. Often, the system is ready to adopt reforms aimed at addressing pertinent issues. The overall objective, however, remains that of delivery of justice. It is on that context that this paper shall discuss the place of victimology in the American criminal justice system. It must not be lost of us that the resolution of crime entails three cardinal players. These are the victim, the state and the criminal. While the law has over the past concentrated on the latter two, it has had little time ...

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Impact on Privacy Google’s latest invention is being launched across the globe. Described as an augmented reality eyewear, the “Google Glass” brings all features of our smart phones (such as voice communication, web browsing, camera, social media usage and apps) directly into our eyes and under the command of our voice. Ever since the concept was first introduced, and the prototype launched, Google Glass has attracted both fans and critics. While supporters consider this product to be the most significant technological advancement of the 21st century, it has also garnered many criticisms on ...

Abstract

Bullying and discrimination are a pervasive and highly damaging situation within school systems throughout the country (NYSUT, 2013). In recent years, this trend has expanded to include issues of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) related bullying and abuse, and the increasing dangers of cyberbullying (i.e. the use of the Internet to abuse classmates), making it paramount to pass legislation that is effective in controlling these trends. The possible effectiveness of the DASA (or Dignity Act) as anti-bullying legislation will be discussed, as well as the historical background of bullying as a practice and its effects. While anti-bullying measures such as ...

Abstract

The project deals with the problem of bullying in the workplace. It was established that Federal Occupational Safety and Health Act and the Healthy Workplace Bill regulate interpersonal relationship and prohibit bullying in the workplace. The types of bullies and their activities are the focal points of the research paper. Since workplace assault poses a tremendous threat to physical and psychological well-being of victims, mental, emotional and physical consequences of bullying were given a particular focus in the concluding part of the project. Keywords: bullying, workplace, victim, physical, mental, abuse It so happens that people are split into two ...

Introduction

The United Nations (UN) estimates that the number of amphetamine abusers to be between 13-53 million globally and most of them are between 15-64 years old. Amphetamines are a group of psychoactive drugs that induce a stimulant effect on users. However, they are associated with a high level of psychological dependence and potential for both mental and physical toxicity-related problems (Sevak, William, and Rush). Being body stimulants, amphetamine's abuse has potential for adverse effects on the abuser. Amphetamines elicit both mental and physical symptoms in active users and those on withdrawal/rehabilitation. Some of the side effects of amphetamine abuse include behavioral ...

Sexual harassment is an unnecessary and undesirable sexual behavior that makes a person feel being offended, intimated, and humiliated, a woman in particular. It should be known that sexual harassment is not a healthy interaction, friendship, or flirtation that is mutual and consensual. Sexual harassment is sex discrimination, and it takes many different forms; it can be obvious or indirect, verbal or physical, repeated or just a curiosity and done by women and men against others of the same sex or opposite sex. Sexual harassment pollutes the environment and it has a devastating effect to the health, morale, confidence, and performance of those affected ...

The TV series Crime Scene Investigation has for some time been one of the viral and most watched series in the world. With its combination of both reality and fiction, much attention is gained from the viewers who criticize and at the same time big up the captivating work of executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer alongside Anthony E. Zuicker, Ann Donahue and Carol Mendelsohn. CSI is a series depicting the crimes (especially murders and kidnappings) committed in most, if not all of the cities around the continent. Moreover, it shows how these crimes are solved to find the unknown truths and ...

Sexual Harassment in the Work Place of Healthcare Professionals

Sexual harassment is unwanted, unwelcome or unsolicited sexual behavior, sexual advances or sexual favors (Gold, 2008). It includes things like whistling at someone, asking them questions about their sex life, inappropriate touching, sexual comments, referring to a woman as babe, rape(attempted or actual), unwanted cornering or sexual looks, just to name a few. There is widespread sexual harassment in various work places, but even more so and in the healthcare profession. Quality healthcare is the backbone of a people. The country and the world at large are in a better position of achieving its vision and goals if its citizens are ...

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This paper was prepared for ESLI 61 Taught by Ms. Blessing Sexual harassment refers to undesirable sexual advances, sexual favors requests, as well as other physical conduct that are suggestive for sexual requests. Sexual harassment may happen in different ways. At some points, it happens when a person seeks to extend favor to another person in exchange for sexual advances. This has been a major problem in many workplaces, where women have been the main victims with minimal cases of men as victims. Sexual harassment may extend massive effects to the persons exposed to it as well as the ...

Introduction

Domestic abuse an issue which has been on the rise in the society; the most affected are women and the girl child. This has not well addressed well because a majority of the women prefer keeping this issues to themselves. They are suffering in silence it is the high time for the state to be responsible and protect women that are victims of violence. As victims, battered women often have a high fear of retaliation from their perpetrators and as much as 50% of all women who are victims say that they fear that they will be subject to revenge because ...

Introduction:

A personal philosophy of ethical practice using core values and essential principles and practices for doctoral research in the field of education should encompass intent, practice and the final use of the materials. To conduct oneself ethically involves more than doing the right thing. Ethical conduct must include acting in the right spirit. Setting out with the right intent and obeying the rules is not sufficient, ethical conduct must also abiding respect and concern for other individuals. Ethical conduct for doctoral research in the field of education is particularly sensitive and demanding. Unlike research undertaken for commercial purposes, ...

Introduction

Bullying entails the use of aggression or threats and force to impose power over other individuals. Bullying happens in the society constantly and it assumes diverse forms. A bully is an individual who uses force or coercion to intimidate his or her peers or members of a group (Dosani, 2008). Bullying takes place in schools and other forums that present a chance for interactions. It occurs mostly in groups where members are between ages seven and twenty. This paper aims to highlight the events in the US, which led to legal decisions about bullying in schools. The paper will highlight the ...

Sexual Harassment in Workplace

Introduction Sexual harassment is now emerging out as a major problem in workplace. Every year thousands of females and males report their experiences to their employers. In 1970s, it was found by researchers that every one of two women becomes a victim of sexual harassment. A survey done by Redbook magazine was done asking women if they had experienced sexual harassment in their workplaces. Nine out of ten reported that they had been victims of the sexual harassment .

Sexual Harassment

Sexual harassment occurs in a workplace when an employee acts against another employee’s wishes by making sexual advances, passing offensive remarks and ...

R.M.S. Lusitania, 1915 versus September 11, 2001 R.M.S. Lusitania, 1915 versus September 11, 2001 In the course of human history, people have felt the cause and effect of disasters many a times. Natural or manmade disasters have caused immeasurable damage to human lives and property that they evade all reasons and logic. Natural disasters cannot be avoided or prevented because they are nature's outburst. Whereas the effect of manmade disasters is more profound because in the reason for their occurrence is completely human folly. Manmade disasters range from wars, terrorism, chemical warfare, and human errors. This paper tries ...

Sexual violence refers to the act of trying to indulge one in a sexual act without consent from the other party. This can be achieved through coercion or inducement (use of drugs) or even physical violence. This form of crime is a problem both to developing and developed countries. The crime is mostly perpetrated against the vulnerable members of the society for instance children. It is prudent to note that anyone can be a victim of sexual violence; however, the females come out as the more vulnerable of the victims as opposed to their male counter parts. Sexual violence is regarded ...

The question of whether or not students caught cyberbullying, even off campus, should face sanctions at school is debatable. A good number of educational institutions already have legislation that regulates the interpersonal relationship among students within and beyond campus. Even so, it is hard to admit it has halted or obliterated online harassment, or cyberbullying. It is safe to say legislation has always been and will forever be an indispensable tool of crime deterrence. The statement does make a lot of sense, but quaere does not it have negative fallouts? American authorities enacted the dry law and legislation prohibiting illegal ...

Alexis has gone through a lot of emotional turmoil caused by Anthony’s deviant sexual behavior. The young girl is clearly a victim of pedophile. The emotional changes that are taking place reflect that of a pedophilia victim. Pedophile victims are those who survive actions of people with paraphilia. Pedophile victims go through periods of sexual, physical, and severe emotional abuse that leaves them with wounds that are more severe than physical injury. Anthony inflicted abuse on Alexis that has left her in a situation that she has to struggle to be happy, cope, and lead a happy life. In addition to this being a ...

Introduction

The EOC-Equal Opportunities Commission has been tasked with matters that have to do with sexual harassment in the work environment since its conception in 1975. As the years have passed by, the commission has made use of the powers it has in the Sex Discrimination Act to assist in sexual harassment claims in tribunals of employment in establishing case laws and has also brought the problem to the fore through lobbying and campaigns. The commission has also initiated investigations on organizations that have a large number of complaints linked to sexual harassment. The purpose of this study is to ...

Introduction

Time has come to treat domestic violence with the seriousness it deserves. The failure by law enforcement officers to react to domestic calls immediately exposes the victim, as well as the community at large, to dangers that may lead to the eventual loss of life. As it has happened in the past, sometimes law enforcement officers do not treat domestic violence as any other crime. The cases of Thurman v. City of Torrington and Castle Rock v. Gonzales point to a failure by the police department to handle domestic violence with the urgency that it needs (Meloy & Miller, 2010). Therefore, ...

Preliminary investigations

Preliminary investigations are investigations carried out before any matter is prosecuted in court. Evidence has to be produced to establish whether the suspect has committed the crime, they are accused of, as well as determine whether there is sufficient evidence to merit a full investigation. In legal terms, preliminary investigations are inquiries conducted by law enforcement officers in order to gather information about an allegation that has been made on the accused person. Inquires are in two fold where preliminary investigations are designed to establish whether a crime was committed and to establish and identify the suspect. In other cases, it ...

Abstract

This paper considers the problems, such as how sexual harassment and flirting become interchangeable in a social context and lead to suppression of sexual harassment, when there are no significant definitions that delineate them. It also shows the need to have such a definition in a culture that has not been able to give women an equality status in the society. By observations and collating anecdotal data, a survey of the factors that could potentially be regarded as crossing over the line of flirtations and treading on sexual harassment are listed. Offline and Online encounters are considered for this purpose. The paper finds ...

Serial killer in modern classification is a killer that during each episode has committed more than three murders without an obvious motive. Although, according to the classification of FBI the determination of serial murder is different and begins from two or more kills that may be committed by one or more killers. Typically between episodes of murders there is a so-called period of cooling emotions and psychological satisfaction of killer. It is believed that most serial killers are antisocial psychological disorders treated with indifference to the suffering of others and contempt for the public morals, but very rarely suffer from distinct ...

Introduction

The world today boasts a diverse workforce in almost all the leading industrial and commercial sectors. The equal employment of men and women has restructured thousands of companies worldwide. Women today, take up employment alongside men in every sector that bolster merit based evaluation and compensation; from NASA to the marines, from telemarketers to stockbrokers, from the Broadway stage to Hollywood, women have pierced markets that were long held as forte by men. Although the economy gains significantly as a result of enterprising women, it also presents a dark side. Workplace bullying, workplace sexual harassment and even sexual assault threaten to destabilize ...

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IRPS220A September 23, 14 Slavery is one of the issues that was, is and has been a major concern in the world. The nature of contemporary slavery is unknown, but estimates show that there are millions of victims of slavery across the globe. Slavery covers a wide variety of human rights violations such as sexual mutilation of men, women and children, child prostitution, sale of orphans, child pornography and many others. On the other hand, human trafficking is an area of concern that involves recruiting, transporting, buying or selling a person by means of force or fraud for the purpose ...

Introduction

Rape is defined as the sexual penetration either through intercourse or through object with the consent of the person. The term rape is very complicated and controversial because it has affected many women, children and men in the society. The fact that it has affected many people has caused the formation of policies and the rights for the victims. The policies are formulated in order to help the victims move on from the incident or get justice for their rape. According to the researches that have been conducted, it is fair to claim that most rape victims in the ...

The case is between Kennedy v. Louisiana when Kennedy raped a child who was lucky enough to be alive. Kennedy happened to rape his own step daughter which led him to being sentenced to death. Kennedy, the petitioner had just got home but found out that the daughter had been raped and decided to call the police. He narrates the story that he had escorted his son to school only to find his daughter in the yard bleeding. He goes ahead to reveal his perceived suspects who were two boys who were just from around their residence (Melusky, Joseph, and ...

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Egyptian feminists and activists of women’s rights have long been struggling for a more justifiable and fair societal status women in the society. At present, there is almost no industry or business vertical into which the women of Egypt have not entered and proving their mettle; irrespective of this, the social status of women in Egypt continues to be prejudiced when compared to that of the social status enjoyed by men. And while there are a plethora of aspects that can be regarded as the reasons behind the prevalent gender gap, male-dominated organizations have unrelentingly been relegating the concerns voiced ...

Important Facts About Child Sexual Abuse

Children Failing to Disclose Abuse: Research consistently shows that most child victims delay disclosing sexual abuse or molestation for significant periods of time, often until they reach adulthood. Fewer than 25% of children disclose abuse immediately. Nearly 40% of confirmed child sexual abuse cases disclose abuse for the first time when the child begins treatment. Children can even deny being sexually abused when shown photographic or video evidence of the abuse. Boys are less likely to report abuse than girls due to the fear of being labeled homosexual if they report it. Studies have shown that 42% of adults ...

The introduction and advancement of the internet has brought with it many wonderful experiences to the general population. Many individuals today primarily seem entrenched with texting, downloading apps, blogging, and social networking media. All of these, and several other popular outlets, allow the user to have a voice. Portals like Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and Reddit give the user a readily made microphone; oftentimes the user does not even have to claim their comments. Essentially, many voices on the internet are anonymous. While sometimes this behavior is good-natured, in other situations it can become harassment. It can even become dangerous or criminal. ...

Domestic violence is one of the most common crimes committed to women and children each year around the globe. Victims are either verbally, emotionally, or physically abused by their love ones, often in long durations or in bouts of great aggression often caused by drug or alcohol use. Sometimes, reports of domestic violence even record men being domestically abused by their wives or boys being abused by their parents. Several methods have already been proposed by experts in order to counter the growing number of domestic violence. One of these proposals was through counselling men in order to redirect ...

Human trafficking is a trade involving the harboring or transportation of persons against their will with the sole purpose of exploiting them. Human trafficking has resulted into forced marriages that revolve on threats or even assault on the victims. The individual is forced into a marriage with unknown person. The individuals who may resist from this form of marriage can be subjected to physical and emotional abuse or even suffer death at the hands of their tormentors. Victims of such circumstances are then stuck into a life of domestic violence, rape and even suicide. In some circumstances, a forced marriage is referred as ...

Intimate Partner Abuse

Intimate Partner Abuse Violence, in either physical, mental or other forms, is a serious problem in many societies. Violence in physical form is estimated to be at 4 to 6 million per year in the US, most involving intimate partners (Rodriguez, et al., 1999). The term intimate partner abuse refers to physical, sexual, or psychological abuse perpetrated by a current or former intimate partner. While this term is gender-neutral, women are more likely to experience physical injuries and incur psychological consequences of intimate partner abuse. Intimate partner abuse refers to abuse that takes place between two individuals inside a relationship. ...

Sexual harassment and discrimination are key vices that have brewed controversy in the public domain. The two are somewhat related making them difficult to differentiate. It is prudent to look keenly at their legal definitions in order to understand what they portend (Zaremba, 2010). Sexual harassment is legally defined as “unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that tends to create a hostile or offensive work environment” (Zaremba, 2010). Discrimination, on the other hand, entails the “unequal treatment of persons, for a reason that has nothing to do with legal rights or ...

Introduction

In Economics, there is a term 'glass ceiling' that refers to an unbreakable, invisible impediment restraining women and the minorities from going up to the high rank of the corporate ladder, regardless of education and accomplishments. A glance into how women are discriminated in terms of wage, recruitment, and promotion in the workplace reveals that a glass ceiling exists in every form possible. In the USA, a hundred years of fight have earned women their civil rights, but now at the crossroad of the 21st century when it is believed that women have acquired a comfortable status in the society in terms of ...

Introduction

John Wayne Gacy. Jr was one of the most dreaded serial killers in Chicago during the 70s. While most other serial killers of the time worked in isolation, Gacy happened to be a social figure who inculcated a very different picture of himself in public. This paper will cover certain aspects from Gacy from a criminal aspect, such as a brief profile, details of the crime, aspects of the trial, the defense strategy and the final outcome.

Brief Profile

Gacy was born to parents of Danish and Polish heritage in 1942 in Chicago, IL. He was the second child of his parents with two sisters. ...

Feminism in Mahfouz's Palace Walk, Nadine Gordimer's None to Accompany Me and J.M. Cotzee's Disgrace

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Naguib Mahfouz, J. M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer are three African Nobel laureates who depicted feminism by showing their central women characters transgress tradition. If Amina, the protagonist of Palace Walk, transgressed tradition by going out on her own to the mosque for prayer, Lucy fought tradition by claiming her right not to take a part in the system of oppression and enters into an impossible relationship of her time by marrying a black man. Vera plays the role reversal by being the party who betrays ...

Virtual Crime: Identity Theft

Virtual crimes against persons are projected to increase at a faster rate over the next decade because of the significant expansion and use of personal computing and social networking sites. Crime becomes easier in the virtual world because people who would not ordinarily confront another person face to face will do so in the privacy and anonymity of the Internet. In many cases, victims may be affected in the same way as if it happened in their neighborhood in the real world. Virtual criminals, for the most part, are somewhat protected by anonymity because they do not leave solid physical ...

History of Lynching in America

Lynching was a type of execution practiced by an assembly of vigilantes that aims to instantaneously kill persons who are charged of terrible misdemeanors. However, lynching do not only served as a punishment to criminals and crimes but also served as a type of group communication whose intention was to impose communal conformity concerning social class, sex norms and racial hierarchy. Lynching comprised violence authorized by the community and the state for which state, local and national governments seldom indicted the persons concerned as well as trials rarely resulted in jail sentences or fines. The mobs in lynching kill accused victims ...

Inappropriate Behavior

Business Inappropriate Behavior

Harassment proscribed under law includes ‘unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature’ (US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, n.d.a.). Marwan’s actions against his co-worker involved an unwelcome sexual advance. Title VII of the US Civil Rights Act prohibits Marwan’s conduct with his fellow worker.

Applicability to Park Guests

According to the US Equal Opportunity Commission, the culpability of being tried under Title VII of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 for sexual harassment is extended to the victim’s supervisor, a different supervisor in the firm, a co-worker, ...

The advent of social media brought on a firestorm of new outlets for internet users. Suddenly individuals were able to connect from all over the world with the click of a button on a single site, or several single sites as others began to pop up. After MySpace began gaining popularity in 2004, social media took off with other sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and SnapChat. It seems that every day a new social media is at our disposal, and even sites like Pinterest are allowing users to access social media features that were once not available on their sites. Essentially, social media ...

Introduction

Statutory rape is usually defined by the state law concerned. However, statutory rape is distinguished from other forms of rape in that the victim must necessarily be below the age of consent and that lack of consent is not a requisite to the crime on the common understanding that a person below a certain age lacks the capability to give an informed consent. Prior to the development of modern statutory rape laws, statutory rape was used to protect young women and children from the sexual incursion of unwanted males. At that time, women were regarded as chattels or property and as such ...

Disaster management is one o the most complex issues that have to be dealt with on both a local and national scale. Issues involved with disaster management include assessing the pending risks, emergency disasters and finally the recovery by the victims afflicted by disaster such as terrorism. Whenever a disaster occurs before all other activities, the most important course of action is care of the victims of the disasters so that they can get through the experience both physically and emotionally. Disasters can either be manmade such as terrorist attacks or natural disasters such as earthquakes (Review of the Emergency Management, ...

Human trafficking by its very definition is synonymous to slavery. In fact, it is commonly known as modern day slavery. However its definition according to the Victims Trafficking Protection Act of 2000, human trafficking is the enrollment, harboring, transporting, distributing, or getting a human being for work through the use of force, con, or intimidation for the purpose of unintentional labor or slavery. It is a major issue that concerns human health and a crime that cross transnational lines. Human trafficking is often confused with human smuggling that is when a smuggler sneaks a group of people across the border on a financial basis. This ...

Instruments Used to Measure Crime in the United States

Abstract Different agencies across the world employ different methodologies to analyze organized crime, and these evaluations help the law enforcement managements to make rational analysis. The objective of the paper is to look at the various instruments used to measure crime in the United States that assist in making decisions about organized crime. This essay explores how law enforcement agencies assess organized crime-related harm with the help of these tools to measure crime. An accurate crime measurement is necessary to describe the social and spatial distribution of crime as well as for evaluating the efficiency of numerous crime ...

Impact of Cyberbullying

Bullying has been a swiftly growing epidemic in American schools. More and more children are being harassed during lunch, recess, in the halls, and even in class. There was a time when children could go home and find relief from this bullying. Unfortunately, with the introduction of social media networks like Facebook and Twitter, sometimes children cannot escape bullying; the harassment is following them home. It is called cyberbullying. Many believe that cyberbullying is not a big deal. They think the child can avoid the sites, find new sites, or simply shut off their computer all together to avoid the bullying. They ...

Statistical reports are showing that in the fiscal year 2011, approximately 700, 00 children were victims of abuse and neglect. Childhood sexual abuse especially is a subject that has been subject to much attention in the recent years. An average of 25% of men and women were victims of a form childhood or adolescent sexual abuse. Child abuse cases are reported less often, which means the number of individuals who have been victims could be greater. With such a great number of people being victims, therapy is becoming necessary than before. Psychiatrists and psychologists are well aware of symptoms and long term ...

Imagine that you’re a prisoner on death row in China; it’s the day before you’re being executed. A few prison officials bring you into a room and sit you down at a table, with a crying woman on the other side. This woman, they explain to you, is the mother of a child who needs a kidney transplant of he will die. They want to use your kidney after you are executed. Upon first hearing this proposal, you are nervous and uncomfortable – you never agreed to have your organs harvested. However, they put a piece of paper in front of your face with a ...

Abstract

The theory of interpersonal relationships was forwarded by Hildegard. E. Peplau and is known as Peplau’s theory. The theory of interpersonal communications was influenced by Harry Stack Sullivan's theory. Researchers have also named Peplau’s theory as psychodynamic nursing. The term psychodynamic nursing is associated with the understanding of one’s behavior. Peplau’s theory describes the different roles a nurse would play in a healthcare setting. Leader, counsellor, teacher, resource person, stranger, and surrogate are the different roles of a nurse described by Peplau’s theory. Orientation, identification, exploitation and resolution are the 4 phases of interpersonal relationship. The paper ...

Cardillac was a goldsmith who was so obsessed with the jewellery he made that he found it hard to sell them. People could contract him to make jewellery for them but even after having completed the work, he was hesitant to hand them over to them. Most of the time, he only gave out the jewellery after violent protests by the customers. It is quite unfortunate to note that even after having handed over the precious metals to his customers, he still attacked them and stole the jewelllery from them. He was the person behind murders that were taking place ...

Identity Theft

Introduction Identity theft is act of stealing an individual’s information and using it for a profit at the other person’s expense. According to research, recent studies show that thousands of people report to be victims of identity theft each year. Perpetrators of these crimes also often are not arrested because identity theft often takes time before it is realized. The rapid advance of technology in the past decade has enabled this crime. This criminal activity has threatened individual identity, privacy, and funds security. Through technology, identity has become a commodity that can be purchased since it could be ...

Introduction

Sexual harassment can be defined as offensive or threatening physical or verbal conduct of a sexual nature. It can also be defined as sexual advances that are unwelcome and are often severe or pervasive thereby affecting the activities of an individual. Sexual harassment can be perpetuated in colleges and universities in the form of promises of work or academic benefits like promotions, high grades, and recommendation letters in exchange for sexual favors. As such, colleges and universities have established policies that seek to ensure that students and employees are not subjected to sexual harassment. Firstly, the guideline of academic ...

L’ORÉAL Policies on Sexual Harassment L’OREAL has explicitly presented its code of ethics in a 36 page document (L’OREAL, 2007). It specifically pronounces its values as respect for the individuals, for the law and the local customs. It strives to practice ethics in three dimensions i.e. as a business, as an employer and as responsible corporate citizen. As an employer, it addresses the issue of sexual harassment in the following manner. The code of ethics of L’OREAL states that any form of sexual harassment is not acceptable, and it asks everybody associated with the company ...

L’ Oreal, Estee Lauder Companies Inc., Shisiedo Company Ltd and Revlon Inc. have sexual harassment policies aimed at providing working places that are free from discrimination based on sex. The policies stipulate that sexual harassment will result to disciplinary action and in some situations it will lead to dismissal. Sexual harassment in the workplace may also lead to civil penalties in some instances. These companies’ policies have similar definitions of the term sexual harassment which they define as any sexual advances which are unwelcome, sexual favour requests or any other conduct sexual in nature if a person is required to ...

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Introduction

Heroin belongs to the opiate family, a class of drugs derived from either the flowers of the poppy plant, or from their synthetic substitutes. In heroin’s case, it is produced from morphine. This is a naturally occurring material derived from the seedpod of the poppy plants. Like numerous drugs made from opiates, heroin is incredibly a strong painkiller Every opiate abuse, as well as heroin and several prescriptions pain relievers, carries with them a solid risk of addiction along with physical dependence. Heroin commonly appears as a white otherwise brown powder. Purest heroin is a white powder, ...

Criminal Law

Abstract This report will discuss the disadvantages of prostitution and cites the reasons why it should not be legitimated. For the past decades, the number of “sex workers” or prostitutes had significantly grown since many customers have patronized their services. Prostitution cannot be considered as legitimate means to earn an income due to health hazards and morality issues. There will be a discussion on the harmful effects of prostitution such as the rising incidence of sexually transmitted infections. Prostitution is also referred to as a form of human trafficking which permits the market demand for sex to the consumers’ satisfaction. ...

Discussion on AIDS

Introduction AIDS is a disease that is caused by a virus called HIV. The virus lowers the body’s immune system, thus making it susceptible to opportunistic diseases. In essence, the disease has no cure. However, if Aids is diagnosed in its early stages, it can be dealt with, and one can live for an extended period (Aretha, pg. 90).

Immediately the virus enters the body; it alters the body immune system. The following symptoms are experienced; Coughing and breathing difficulties, Fever, Persistent headache and stiff neck, Loss of vision, Weight loss and extreme fatigue which may result as the ...