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Essay Instructions: With the increase of health information technology used to store and access patient information, the likelihood of security breaches has also risen. In fact, according to the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ):
In the United States, there was a whopping 97% increase in the number of health records breached from 2010 to 2011? The number of patient records accessed in each breach has also increased substantially, from 26,968 (in 2010) to 49,394 (in 2011). Since August 2009, when the US government regulated that any breach affecting more than 500 patients be publicly disclosed, a total of 385 breaches, involving more than 19 million records, have been reported to the Department of Health and Human Services.
A large portion of those breaches, 39%, occurred because of a lost, stolen, or otherwise compromised portable electronic device?a problem that will likely only get worse as iPads, smartphones, and other gadgets become more common in hospitals. (CMAJ, 2012, p. E215).
Consider your own experiences. Does your organization use portable electronic devices? What safeguards are in place to ensure the security of data and patient information? For this Discussion you consider ethical and security issues surrounding the protection of digital health information.

Essay Instructions: Assignment 2: Protection Against Abuse

The concept of deterrence plays an important role in our system. Laws are in place to punish offenders but also to hopefully dissuade potential offenders from actually committing the crime.

Your state has decided to pass a law requiring residents to sort their trash so that recyclable material can be recovered. The purpose of the new law is not really to punish people, but rather is designed to deter people from discarding recyclable material improperly. Prepare a memo to the committee that is looking into this project; they need to understand the concept.

Your memo should be 2-3 pages and include:

An explanation of the concept of deterrence.
A mention of whether deterrence is a Classical concept or a Positive one.
A suggestion for a deterrent punishment, with an explanation as to why you believe that this punishment will have the desired deterrent effect.
Are there any characteristics of the potential offender that influence whether deterrence will work? Will certain deterrence efforts work on some offenders and not others?
What will the state have to do in order to achieve deterrence?

My State is Texas..... Please add references and URLs in APA format. Thank you

Essay Instructions: Assignment 2: Protections Against Improper Police Behavior

Your sergeant asks you to speak to new recruits during the course of their training. The sergeant wants you to discuss the protections provided to citizens by the Constitution and other sources against aggressive police behavior. Prepare a speech for the new recruits, underscoring some of the protections against improper police behavior. You may need to refer to material covered in previous weeks of this course. In your speech, explain the protections provided by at least two of the following:

? Internal affairs
? Civilian review boards
? Constitutional protections
? Landmark court cases related to police procedure

Conclude your speech with some advice about the use of discretion in the field.

Cite any sources you use on a separate page, according to APA guidelines.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Prepared a speech for the new recruits, underscoring some of the protections against aggressive police behavior.

Included a discussion of the protection provided by at least two of the following:
? Internal affairs
? Civilian review boards
? Constitutional protections
? Landmark court cases related to police procedure

Added comments regarding the use of discretion, showed an understanding of how appropriate discretion relates to proper police behavior.

Used correct spelling, grammar, and professional vocabulary and cited all sources using APA format.

Essay Instructions: Prepare a well-reasoned public policy argument for the proposition that the criminalization of a pregnant woman ingesting illegal drugs, without also criminalizing other forms of fetal neglect such as excessive consumption of alcohol, aspirin, or caffeine, or inadequate diet or improper activities, violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Ammendment. [See Dorothy Roberts 104 Harvard Law Review 1419 (1991); and Lynn M. Paltrow 62 Albany Law Review 999 (1999)].