Case Study

Instructions: Please read the following case study and answer the questions. Your essay should be at least 350 words in length

Rita Crundwell: Remaining Charges Dropped Against Ex-Dixon Comptroller (ritacrundwell.com)

Prosecutors on Tuesday dropped all remaining charges against a former city comptroller who recently began serving a lengthy federal prison sentence for stealing nearly $54 million from her northern Illinois community.

Lee County State’s Attorney Anna Sacco-Miller dropped the 60 state counts of felony theft that remained against former Dixon comptroller Rita Crundwell. The prosecutor explained that the state case would have cost taxpayers more money and would not have resulted in additional prison time because any sentence would have to be concurrent with the federal punishment.

Crundwell, who was Dixon’s longtime bookkeeper, admitted in federal court in November that she stashed public money in a secret bank account for about two decades and used it to fund her lavish lifestyle and her renowned horse-breeding operation. The money went toward everything from expensive horse trailers and luxury motor homes to jewelry and birthday bashes in Venice Beach, Fla. It ranks as one of the worst abuses of public trust in the state’s corruption-rich history.

Because Crundwell had sole control of the city’s bookkeeping, the theft went unnoticed for years, even as the city’s financial shape suffered, with streets and equipment falling into disrepair and city employees going without raises. There wasn’t even enough money to mow the grass at the cemetery.

The scheme unraveled only when a colleague who filled in for her when she went on an extended vacation became suspicious.

Crundwell was sentenced in federal court in February to nearly 20 years in prison. Her attorney in the state case, Bob Thompson, had argued that subjecting her to another trial would amount to double jeopardy.

The state case covered only the period from January 2010 until Crundwell’s arrest in April 2012, during which time she was accused of stealing about $11 million.

Dixon Mayor Jim Burke said he had wanted to see Crundwell back in court, but that he agreed with the state’s attorney’s reasoning.

“She probably made a wise decision in just dropping the whole thing rather than spending money just to get some kind of emotional satisfaction out of the fact that we’re trying to nail Rita’s hide to the door one more time,” Burke said.

Sacco-Miller said the state charges could still be re-filed if Crundwell’s appeal of her federal sentence is successful.

The 60-year-old Crundwell is jailed in Boone County pending her assignment to a federal prison. She did not appear at Tuesday’s hearing.

1. Do you think Crundwell’s actions should be considered white-collar offending? Explain your answer.

2. If you were the prosecutor in the state case, would you have dropped the charges? Why or why not?

3. What should the City of Dixon do in the future to avoid being the victim of white-collar offending?

4. Do you think white-collar offending is as serious as crimes against persons (e.g., assault, robbery, murder)? Explain your answer.

Please remember to use more than just the textbook for references.

Textbook:

Schram, P. & S. Tibbetts (2017). Introduction to Criminology: Why do they do it? (2nd ed.).

How to Write a Critical Outline for Fiction

Length—Generally 3-4 pages

Georgia: Books 7 until 8 critical outline with all chapters!!!

Step One: Review the number of chapters involved in the assignment (given in page numbers).

Step Two:Read the given section of pages.

Step Three: Create chapter summaries for each chapter in the given assignment. Tell what goes on in the chapter, to whom, and to what effect. Use the chapter numbers as headers: ChapterOne: (then give summary), etc.

Step Four: Find some part of a scene in one of the chapters that strikes you as unusual (ananomaly). Decide whether you are positively or negatively disposed to this anomaly. Summarize he anomaly and your reaction under the header: Anomaly.

Step Five: Cite one philosophical principle that you think in some way connects to the anomaly. Header: Philosophical Principle.

Book: Michael Boylan, Georgia: A Trilogy

Recent history illustrates that bullying is a growing problem among today’s youth in the United States.  Amanda Todd, for example, was only fifteen (15) years old when she committed suicide after being bullied by her peers for over a year. 

Watch the video titled “Amanda Todd’s Story: Struggling, Bullying, Suicidal, Self-harm” (8 min 55 s).                            

Video Source: ChisVideos. (2012, October 11). Amanda Todd’s Story: Struggling, Bullying, Suicidal,   Self-harm [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej7afkypUsc. ;

This video can be viewed from within your online course shell. 

Use your textbook, the Internet, and / or Strayer Library to research articles on bullying cases that occur today.

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

1. Describe at least two (2) types of bullying to which Amanda Todd was subjected.
2. Identify at least three (3) consequences that Amanda Todd experienced as a result of being bullied, and discuss her attempts to deal with them.
3. Recommend two (2) strategies that you believe Amanda’s parents, teachers, and authorities could have used in order to reduce episodes of bullying of Amanda and thus prevent Amanda’s suicide. 
4. Compare at least two (2) similarities and two (2) differences between the bullying cases that take place today with those cases that took place when you attended high school. 
5. Explain the key contributing factors that you believe led to bullying behaviors. Next, suggest at least three (3) ways in which prevention programs can reduce bullying cases overall.
6. Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.  

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

Married, With Parents

For this discussion:

• Use the Internet or any other appropriate resources and find at least two organizations, agencies, or programs that would help the couple, Cynthia and Chris, in the Married, With Parents video you viewed earlier in this unit.
• Take the role of a volunteer or employee at an organization that could help people in their situation and write a post in the form of an e-mail to the couple, responding to their inquiries for help.
• Be specific and encouraging, but also as realistic as appropriate in terms of resource availability and access.

Provide scholarly support for your recommendations. Be sure to respond to follow-up questions you receive in the discussion.

Please remember, this is a discussion, but it is a scholarly discussion. As such, your posts should reflect having read and applied the course material. Your discussion posts (initial and peer response posts) should contain in-text citations and reference lists, and should follow APA style and format.

Response Guidelines

Read the postings by other learners and respond to at least two other learners by taking the role of a new volunteer or employee at the agency the original poster is representing.

• What would you add to the help given Cynthia and Chris and why?
• What was recommended that you would like explained?

Reference your answer with citations from the readings as much as possible.

Incorporating evidence-based practice is what we should do as health care workers to give the best patient-centered care we can provide. “The nurse assesses the patient and implements evidence-based practice (EBP) while assuming each role and providing health promotion measures to patients and the community,” (Falkner, 2018). As mentioned, nurses are patient advocates and that involves providing patient education to ensure patient’s have the correct information to better their outcomes. I agree that we need to speak with authority, and I know nurses need to speak with confidence. When talking with patients, families, providers, and other staff members then confidence can go far and give the assertiveness that is needed. Patients and family want a nurse who doesn’t second guess oneself, and providers and other staff members want to feel like the nurse is competent in their patient care. Our job is to promote health and aid in assisting patients in their most vulnerable times in their lives for better outcomes in life.

Falkner, A. (2018). Health Promotion in Nursing Care. Health Promotion: Health and Wellness Across the Continuum.Retrieved from https://lc.gcumedia.com/nrs429vn/health-promotion-…

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