...Mr. Jerry’s Sandusky an assistant football coach for 32 years at Penn State was accused of being a child rapist of many students that was trusted under his care even though he had four foster kids of his own. Although Mr. Sandusky worked as a coach at Penn he was also a founder of the Second Mile Program where he had inappropriate contact with kids. In 1998 Mr. Sandusky even confessed to a inappropriate incident of taking a shower with an underage child which matched a mother’s story where she accused him of hugging her 11year old son while showering with him. Sandusky retired but was still granted to the facilites. A year later in 2000 James Calhoun reported seeing Sandusky violating a young child in the Lasch Building showers which he reported...
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...Organizational Behavior in the Case of the Penn State Sex Abuse Scandal Kelley Griffin OL-500 Human Behavior in Organization Southern New Hampshire University Lisa Wright March 23, 2013 Organizational Behavior in the Case of the Penn State Sex Abuse Scandal In 2012, “former Penn State defensive coordinator Gerald “Jerry" Sandusky was found guilty of sexual abuse. . . . He was accused of sexually abusing 10 boys over a 15-year period in a scandal that has rocked the university's community” (Chappell, 2012, para. 1). When the story of Jerry Sandusky broke to the press, the University board believed the investigation currently underway at their university was solely concerning Jerry Sandusky, but unbeknownst to them, the organizational breakdown of Penn State was involved in the investigation as well. The investigation analyzed documents and conversations from Penn State’s leaders that spanned from 1998 to 2011. What came to light was that Sandusky, a renowned alumni of 32 years, ex-Penn State football coach, and an active member in youth charity programs, had been sexually harassing minors on and off university property. In addition, at various points during this time frame, leaders in various positions within Penn State’s organization knew of these accounts and did nothing about it. This report aims to focus on how the organizational culture as well as the breakdown in leadership responsibilities, aided in the allowance of such acts to continue...
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...Exploring the World of Pedophilia Abnormal Psychology 201 Abstract In recent years religious groups, policymakers and psychologist have debated information regarding the psychosexual disorder called Pedophilia. Most people agree that this disorder deserves attention, and there are very negative stigmas associated. California Congresswoman Jackie Speier, Democrat, wants to federalize a state law to protect pedophiles. In October 2013, the top cleric in Poland’s Roman Catholic Church said parents share blame for certain cases of pedophilia. Recently, Iranian legislature approved a law that will allow girls under the age of 13 to marry as long as the permission of her father is granted. This research paper will examine the historical, cultural, and psychological information regarding pedophilia and how this disorder is viewed in a modern society. This research paper will also examine the prevalence, causes, and treatment of this disorder. Exploring the World of Pedophilia Pedophilia, also spelled paedophilia, psychosexual disorder in which an adult has sexual fantasies about or engages in sexual acts with a prepubescent child of the same or opposite sex. (Britannica, 2013) The American Psychiatric Association has included Pedophilia in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders since 1968. (Blachard, 2010) This research paper will explore the historical, cultural, and psychological information related to the disorder of pedophilia. Researching...
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...Sex Laws “Ninety percent of children who are sexually abused know their abuser. A 2000 study found that family members account for 34 percent of people who abuse juveniles, and acquaintances account for another 59 percent. Only 7 percent were strangers” (Jones 1). Because of present-day laws in four states including California, today’s sex offenders, whether it was a petty offense such as consensual sex with a minor or peeing in a public park, or a major offence such as rape or molestation must register himself or herself as a sex offender onto an online database for the rest of their lives. Depending on the particular states laws will determine how the registry works, and how long an offender stays on the list. Considering that more sexual...
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...Child abuse versus Discipline CJ 210 October 1, 2012 Abstract This paper will identify the difference between abuse and discipline. The effective ways to teach our children and the negative ways in which people think discipline can be tied into abuse. The thin line between abuse and discipline and how some people may think it is justified. Child abuse versus Discipline What is child abuse? Under the federal law any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker which results in death, serious physical, or emotional harm, sexual abuse, or exploitation; or an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm(New World Encyclopedia 2012) . The abuse of children is more than just broken bones even though physical abuse is a concern you also have different types of abuse. There is Neglect, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and physical and they differ from discipline. Discipline is the training that a parent or guardian gives a child so that he or she can act or react to a situation in life in a specific way (education 2012). It builds character in the child and shows them the way they should carry themselves when in society. Training children mental improvement and morally is another way discipline helps keeps in good way. Using physical tactics for example beating, spankings, punches and slaps are common things people think of when you say discipline in a physical way however, if the child doesn’t learn a lesson then it isn’t discipline...
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...Child abuse versus Discipline Abstract This paper will identify the difference between abuse and discipline. The effective ways to teach our children and the negative ways in which people think discipline can be tied into abuse. The thin line between abuse and discipline and how some people may think it is justified. Child abuse versus Discipline What is child abuse? Under the federal law any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker which results in death, serious physical, or emotional harm, sexual abuse, or exploitation; or an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm(New World Encyclopedia 2012) . The abuse of children is more than just broken bones even though physical abuse is a concern you also have different types of abuse. There is Neglect, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and physical and they differ from discipline. Discipline is the training that a parent or guardian gives a child so that he or she can act or react to a situation in life in a specific way (education 2012). It builds character in the child and shows them the way they should carry themselves when in society. Training children mental improvement and morally is another way discipline helps keeps in good way. Using physical tactics for example beating, spankings, punches and slaps are common things people think of when you say discipline in a physical way however, if the child doesn’t learn a lesson then it isn’t discipline. If you do not sit...
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...Apart from the everyday economic, political and environmental issues that are shown in the television and discussed in the newspapers is another problem that is sickening— like a social bug that affects everybody— child sexual abuse. Child sexual abuse is getting more rampant these days and it does not happen overnight. It is a gradual process like a predator hunting for a prey. And this makes us think, why is it not identified sooner? The Jerry Sandusky scandal in 2011, a high profile case with 40 counts of child sexual abuse against boys, have ignited a curiosity about the sexual grooming behaviors of such offenders (Winters and Jeglic 1). Child sexual abuse is an ongoing problem in the community that could lead to adverse and unfavorable...
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...29/10/2014 REPORT 29/10/2014 REPORT CHAD’S CREATIVE CONCEPTS BUSINESS REPORT Synergy Business Solutions 6 Success Drive 1778 Lake Erie Cohort Sandusky Ohio Company Overview Synergy Business Solutions (SBS) is a business located in Lake Erie, Sandusky, Ohio, specializing in consulting services for small, medium and large businesses. SBS’ primary services include market feasibility studies, business plans, operational reviews, re-engineering, strategic planning, seminars and workshops. Our mission is to provide our clients with business services that will help them become more successful and to become a leader in their area of business. The company was founded by six (6) MBA students in 2013 who’s varying concentration (Marketing, Finance, General Management) propelled SBS into maintaining a number of external investments globally. SBS is known for its ability to offer several corporate giants and small business units the opportunity to further expand their business portfolio internationally. The company boasts a clientele of over three hundred and the services offered is unmatched by no other firm of this nature. ASSUMPTIONS Synergy Business Solutions assessed Chad’s Creative Concepts (CCC) operations and based on the problem state problem here identified and investigated, the following assumptions were brought to the fore: 1. The company’s management assumed that they would have been able to fulfil orders of both custom as well as standard lines...
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...Abstract Page This study looks at the work of Common Sense Media and an evaluation given to a numerous amount of teachers gathering information about what technology has done for students’ ability to learn. This research draws upon teachers of multiple states, ages, and grades. This case example shows how technology has negatively affected the cognitive function of students’ minds while involved at school.Has technology ruined our ability to communicate on a personal level? Sociology 111 Term Paper Taylor Sandusky December 9, 2015 INTRODUCTION Technology plays a large role in our communication skills. Almost everyone has observed someone tapping away at their cell phone on their way into the store, someone poking at computer keys in the corner of a coffee shop, or even the one student in class not paying any attention to the lesson and instead focusing on the Candy Crush game application running on his iPad. Today’s society is...
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...In recent years the crime rate on college campuses has gone up drastically, however, the campuses have been working on advancing the safety systems provided to the students during enrollment. The group decided to cover campus safety because college bound females are the most vulnerable to sexual assault. By covering the statistics, the researchers hope to prevent further attack. The following paragraphs include a comparison of university size to assault rates, provide specific examples of sexual assault, and inform about the precautions that many colleges choose to take and the precautions that are being taken in order to prevent further mishap. The first case that people were informed about happened in the early 2000’s and it wasn’t until...
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...Harvard Business School 9-698-049 December 1, 1997 Wriston Manufacturing Corporation In early 1992, Richard Sullivan, recently appointed vice president in the Heavy Equipment Division (HED) of the Automotive Supplier Group of the Wriston Manufacturing Corporation, scrutinized one more time the P&L forecast for the Detroit plant—part of a lengthy report on the future of the plant which had been prepared by a task force Sullivan had appointed six months earlier. Sullivan had joined the division in 1988 as division controller, and for several years had watched the plant perform at a level well below division expectations. In addition, he sensed that the plant had lost its spirit. Over the years, products with growth potential had been transferred to new plants and with them had gone investment dollars and management talent. "For the past 20 years," a plant engineer said, "people have been expecting the plant to close." The Detroit plant’s sales were expected to remain in the $35-40 million range, and the task force had concluded that "at best a break-even operation is expected for at least five years if the operation is left as is." Sullivan noted, "On the first cut, it looks like we cannot achieve an acceptable level of profitability at Detroit even if we raised prices and cut hourly wages." With the Detroit facility now his direct responsibility, Sullivan felt it important to address the problem. He did not believe that the existing plant was viable in the...
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...look the other way and fail to act on irrefutable evidence that former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky had raped and molested young boys, an offense for which Sandusky currently is serving a 30- to 60-year sentence? According to the independent report by Louis Freeh that investigated the sexual abuse, four of the most powerful people at Penn State, including president Graham Spanier, athletic director Timothy Curley, senior vice president Gary Schultz, and head football coach Joe Paterno, sheltered a child predator harming children for over a decade by concealing Sandusky’s activities from the board of trustees, the university community, and authorities. The Freeh report characterizes the inactions as lacking empathy for the victims by failing to inquire as to their safety and wellbeing. Not only that, but they exposed the first abused child to additional harm by alerting Sandusky, who was the only one who knew the child’s identity, of what assistant coach Mike McQueary saw in the shower on the night of February 9, 2001.1 McQueary testified at the June 2012 trial of Sandusky that when he was a graduate assistant, he walked into the locker room and heard sounds of slapping and observed Sandusky up against a boy, whose hands were up against the wall.2 He reported the suspected child abuse to Paterno who reported the incident to his superiors but did not confront Sandusky or report the incident to the board of trustees or the police.3 REASONS FOR UNETHICAL ACTIONS The...
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...settings, that hasn't been my involvement with all. I've shown many Division 1 student athletes at a few distinct schools, and they have been among the most diligent understudies I've experienced. The student athletes I've worked with have seen their game as a supplement to, not a substitution for, their research. Why is this vital? Since when an athlete imagines that whatever remains of the group couldn't care less about school work, that athlete tries to fit in by imagining not to mind either. In an unreasonable type of peer pressure, Cardale Jones' tweet about classes being useless might be what student athletes reveal to each other with an end goal to fit in, in view of the mixed-up conviction that on the off chance that they think about studies, they are in an uncool minority. The generalizations are (somewhat) genuine: College competitors do more terrible in school than their non-competitor partners. That is one finding of the College Sports Project, an activity of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which broke down the review point midpoints of 83,728 understudies from 84 N.C.A.A. Division III schools and colleges. Specialists isolated the understudies into three classifications: non-competitors; enrolled competitors (individuals selected from secondary school to play a specific school brandish, paying little respect to whether they wound up playing); and stroll on competitors (individuals who were not enlisted out of secondary school but rather played a school wear at any rate)...
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...organization. Whistle blowing, which seems to become increasingly common as employees speak out about ethical concerns or illegal practices in the work place to the public or to authorities. “There is a great deal of evidence to suggest that whistle blowing is one of the most important sources of information or detecting and reducing illegal and unethical corporate behaviors” (Kohn 2011). In general, whistle blowers feel a need to report the incident in order to put a stop to the illegal or ethical concern in the business or to correct them from happening on a regular basis. In the past years, there have been a lot of cases where employees have decided to come up in public eye and expose the unethical behavior within their companies. There is no doubt that many unquestionable practices among business organizations are being committed daily. With all the recent cases of corporate fraud, companies now provide for internal rules to protect the whistle-blower against retaliation, harassment or intimidation of the person involved in the illegal act. In order to encourage disclosure, many federal and state statutes prohibit employers from retaliating against an employee who files such reports. Often time’s whistle blowers, because of what they do to expose the wrong doing of others are considered as traitors within a business organization. They are accused of...
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...negligence, illegal booster involvement, and a general lack of University oversight are all problems that continue to mar the once highly regarded reputations of academic institutions across America. These transgressions, which occur at shockingly consistent rates around campuses nationwide, (committed by faculty, coaches, players, administrators, and alumni), are effectively compromising the sacred amateurism college athletics has maintained to define its culture and provide credence for its illustrious traditions for over a century. Ethical questions of this magnitude have been pondered by academics and legal stalwarts alike with great depth both at the local and global level for years. Several studies reflect that a substantial percentage of the “major” NCAA recruiting violations and cases of egregious academic misconduct occur typically at institutions where local administrators and financiers have created a “win at all costs” culture pertaining to BCS (Bowl Championship Series) football and the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament. A handful of local schools sanctioned by the NCAA in the last few decades for recruiting violations and academic misconduct include the University of South Carolina, Alabama, Auburn, Georgia Tech, LSU, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Arkansas. Each year the NCAA collects its constituents: college presidents, athletic directors, and compliance directors (among others), to discuss the current “integrity climate” of college...
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