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… collar crime (tobacco and pharmaceutical industries)
III. Literature Review
A. Balancing public health/safety with personal liberty/self-empowerment
B. Alternate strategies, pilot projects
1. Cannabis law reform
2. Psychedelics
IV. Discussion
V. Conclusions
A. The war on drugs is a human rights issue.
B. The war on drugs is … databases contain over a million entries related to the war on drugs, covering perspectives linked to psychology, sociology, public health, history, and the law. Of these, none provide tangible support for the war on drugs or recommend its perpetuation as evidence-based or pragmatic policy. Almost without exception … too, major research organizations and academic institutions decry the war on drugs and point out its failure in quantitative terms. Writing for Harvard law Today, London (2005) mentions the more than 500,000 individuals serving time in prison for nonviolent drug offenses. Imprisonment as a response to drug-related … The Center for American Progress……
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… their race or gender. Labor organizations, employment agencies, educational institutions, local governments, and private employers’ applicants and employees get protection against discrimination from federal law.
The mission of the office of the Harvard University’s assistant president is to deliver sustained equality and diversity initiatives, policies, and programs to … outreach, programmatic efforts, and talent management plans are characterized by the emerging and historic research and scholarship, and the local equal opportunity and federal categories and guidelines (Harvard University, 2019). The H-OAP believes in the affirmative action and compliance with AA/EEO law, procedures and policies. The charter on affirmative action defines the responsibilities, role, and authority of H-AOP office.
Harvard has become the home for ……
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Harvard University (2016). Pursuing Excellence on a Foundation of Inclusion, Harvard University Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging. Retrieved 19 March, 2019 from https://inclusionandbelongingtaskforce.harvard.edu/files/inclusion/files/harvard_inclusion belonging_task_force_final_report_full_web_180327.pdf
The Guardian (2019). Cambridge University\\\\'s poor diversity record highlighted by report. Retrieved 19 March, 2019 from https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jun/03/cambridge-colleges-poor-record-on- diversity-highlighted-by-report
University of Cambridge (2019). Equality, diversity and inclusion, Student wellbeing. Retrieved 19 March, 2019 from https://www.studentwellbeing.admin.cam.ac.uk/equality-diversity- and-inclusion
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… in the IT industry. Underlying these CSR programs is a Code of Ethics that seeks to promote compliance with all local, state and federal law and to foster a strong ethical spirit among its workers.
The Code of Ethics for Amazon first focuses on compliance with all external … spirit among its workers.
The Code of Ethics for Amazon first focuses on compliance with all external lows of the city, state and federal government. Secondly, it focuses on removing conflicts of interest. For example, it states that employees should act in the best interests of Amazon … should not interfere with the company’s. Third, it explicitly states that insider trading will not be tolerated as it is against state and federal law. It acknowledges the need to guard against discrimination and harassment in the workplace, and it emphasizes the need to keep the workplace clean, ……
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… other people's work without crediting them (Resnik, 2015).
Third, ethical standards are important in research because they make researchers more accountable. For example, the federal government and many institutions have research policies and ethical codes of conduct that researchers have to adhere to get the support they need … ethical standards are important in research because they encourage social and moral values, e.g., public safety, public health, compliance with regulations and the law, animal welfare, human rights, and social responsibility. Without such standards, studies that end up harming the public, subjects, animals, or the researchers themselves … there could be many cases of researchers fabricating or falsifying data during…[break]…the APA, psychologists are only allowed, not to ask for consent, when federal law or institutional regulations say so or when their studies are logically expected not to cause any harm, e.g., when they are conducting archival ……
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Smith, D. (2003). Five principles for research ethics. Monitor on Psychology, 34(1), 56.
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Walsh, R. T. (2015). Introduction to ethics in psychology: Historical and philosophical grounding. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 35(2), 69.
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… that the industry requires extensive knowledge in other emerging critical areas to become successful. The additional areas include, but are not limited to law, computers and management (Dempsey, 2008).
Current and future private security companies require extensive knowledge of the law. Legislations governing the industry have either been passed by various states or in the processed of being passed. Furthermore, several federal law indirectly or directly affect management of the private security industry. For instance, legislation on denying employers polygraph use in pre-employment screening and drug … and drug testing have significantly affected the security industry. Future trends indicate that the industry requires extensive knowledge on civil and criminal liability law. The industry leadership must be cognizant of employees’, employers’ and clients’ legal rights, including the likely implications of violating those rights (Encyclopedia of … contract security forces requires the industry management to properly understand security requirements, legal liabilities……
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Dempsey, John S. Introduction to Private Security. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2008. Print.
Encyclopedia of Security Management: Techniques & Technology. Place of publication not identified: Elsevier Science, Inc, 1993. Print.
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IDEA law IEP Special Education
Abstract
Since the majority of parents of disabled students struggle with navigating special education systems, advocacy training provides a means … comes to special education. Before the 80s, several parents depended on professionals to receive emotional aid and training. But on account of recent federal law reforms like NCLB (No Child Left Behind) and IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), parents are being regarded as equal partners, in children's … (Dameh 31).
Under IDEA, an IEP has been considered the key mechanism to undertake decisions for special education pupils. It is mandatory by law that teachers include children as well as their parents in all IEP meetings, which must be conducted no less than once, annually, though ……
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Arnini, Sarah, \\\\\\"Parents as Partners: An Analysis of the Barriers to Parental Involvement in Special Education\\\\\\" (2007). Social Work Theses. 12. http://digitalcommons.providence.edu/socialwrk_students/12
Burke, Meghan M. \\\\\\"Improving parental involvement: Training special education advocates.\\\\\\" Journal of Disability Policy Studies 23.4 (2013): 225-234. DOI: 10.1177/1044207311424910
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… it would be more than a century after the ratification of the 13th Amendment before the Civil Rights Act would be signed into law—and it would take a major protest led by Martin Luther King, Jr. just to achieve that. From the Mississippi Black Code of 1865 … example of the Jim Crow mentality that proliferated in the South. For example, Article 3, Section 2 of the Black Code forbade the law assembly of blacks (whatever that meant—did blacks need a permit to get together in a group?) and also forbade whites mixing with blacks … the state had to free its slaves under the 13th Amendment, it was going to do everything it could (even in violation of federal law) to prevent blacks from gaining any kind of social status or leverage in the community. The state was, in other words, going to ……
Works Cited
King, Jr., Martin Luther. “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” 1963.
The Mississippi Black Code of 1865.
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… is important to note that in all hazardous materials incidents, an incident management system must be utilized (Corbett, 2009). This is essentially a federal law mandate. From a general perspective, an incident management system could be defined as all the attempts to not only understand but also respond ……
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… be a horrible violation of human and civil liberties.
With that said, we are tasked not only with assessing the spirit of the law but also the letter of the law, even though it has been said that the letter kills but the spirit gives life. The letter of the law exists to set the parameters for the spirit—not to be twisted by linguists and law whose livelihoods depends upon their ability to reinterpret and re-imagine new meanings for words. The law is a thing to be respected, and yet everywhere it appears it has been gravely abused with fear and hysteria serving as the … gravely abused with fear and hysteria serving as the underlying motivation for this abuse.
But the Constitution does not give governors or the federal government the right to assume dictatorial control just because fear and hysteria are in the air. It is a……
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