Summarize the three technological practices that pose threats to privacy: data-gathering, data-merging, data-mining. Using the readings and “Science of Surveillance” video, provide an example of each and explain how it threatens traditional notions of privacy.
Category: Ethics
Ethical Challenges in the Use of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in Agriculture
Write a research paper on ethical Challenges in the Use of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in Agriculture
The Interconnectedness of Environmental Injustice, Racial Capitalism, and Prison Systems
Respond to the essay question in 500–750 words, excluding the bibliography. Be sure to include at least two quotes or citations from the readings and provide an appropriate bibliography.
How are environmental injustice and racial capitalism related to prisons and incarcerated people, as well as the communities they come from and the places where prisons are built? How do environmental justice and abolition provide ways of thinking about ameliorating suffering for these populations?
Ethical Considerations in Providing Omega-3 Supplements for Hyperactivity: A BCBA’s Dilemma
Michael is a BCBA that has worked with a family for over (5) years. Recently, his learner has entered adolescence and he has started to exhibit behaviors best categorized as “hyperactivity”. The family read about Omega-3 supplements and started an aggressive, but medically safe dosage schedule. This regimen requires the vitamin be given after school at the clinic. The clinic currently has a medication administration protocol, but Michael is concerned with the BACB code and non-supported interventions. Should Michael provide the supplement?
Ethical Problems Related to Patients and Prescription Drug Use
Develop, in detail, a situation in which a health care worker might be confronted with ethical problems related to patients and prescription drug use OR patients in a state of poverty.
• Your scenario must be original to you and this assignment. It cannot be from previous forum.
• Articulate (and then assess) the ethical solutions that can be found using “care” (care-based ethics) and “rights” ethics to those problems.
• Assessment must ask if the solutions are flawed, practicable, persuasive, etc.
• What health care technology is involved in the situation? What moral guidelines for using that kind of healthcare technology should be used there? Explore such guidelines also using utilitarianism, Kantian deontology, ethical egoism, or social contract ethics.
• Say how social technologies such as blogs, crowdfunding, online encyclopedias can be used in either case. What moral guidelines for using that kind of healthcare technology should be used there? Develop such guidelines also using utilitarianism, Kantian deontology, ethical egoism, or social contract ethics.
Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts
I AM CURRENTLY ENROLLED IN A BORED CERTIFIED BEHAVIOR ANAYLST PROGRAM (BCBA)
Reflect on the different ethical concerns we’ve discussed over the course of this semester. For each of the questions below, write 5-6 sentences in response.
1. What is your primary concern about being a practitioner in the field and what will you do to ensure ethical practice?
2. What is your primary concern about being a supervisor in the field (either of RBTs, paraprofessionals, or future BCBAs) and what will you do to ensure ethical practice?
3. What is your primary concern about ensuring ethical responsibility for an organization you work with and what will you do to ensure ethical practice?
4. What is one thing you are concerned about that you had not considered prior to this class? How do you think about it differently now?
5. Share any ethical concerns you have that were not discussed in this class.
Professional ethics statement is on the internet.
Choose and research a statement of professional ethics for your anticipated career and evaluate that statement. Reflect on the values they list or hold in high esteem. How would you represent that professional group of people utilizing your own individual
values system? Do your values and the companies’, or professional groups’ values align? The easiest way to find a professional ethics statement is on the internet. Please provide a link to the ethics statement you choose.
Applied Ethics in CJ Management
Applied Ethics in CJ Management provided me information and real life scenarios to help me continue to succeed in my career as well as my personal life. By reading the articles provided on officers who faced discipline behind noble cause corruption, unethical behavior, and the slippery slope, reassured me to never let the means justify the ends. No criminal is worth my profession or freedom over if I don’t have all the elements of the crime or legal standing to make an arrest.
Law enforcement officers these days are under constant scrutiny by everyone and only we as officers can control our own destinies. Regardless of rank or time on the department, everyone can benefit from this class in order to gain more knowledge and a better understanding on why officers stray from the noble cause.
On a personal level, the above mentioned can also be applied in my everyday life. Integrity is a word that as brought up often. Ones integrity is shows people the type of person you are and the standards we hold ourselves to. If I cannot maintain my integrity, how are people supposed to trust and rely on me on and off the job?
Ethical Risk Assessment by Anne Federwisch
Read the article titled Ethical Risk Assessment by Anne Federwisch (Markkula Center for Applied Ethics) and respond in a minimum of 200 words to the below question.
Explain how the information gleaned from this article may be applied to a police or corrections agency. How would you change the methodology?
Business Ethics
- Define Business Ethics and explain why ethical leadership is important in organizations
- What can occur if companies operate without ethical considerations?
- What are some principles (from the chapter) that leaders and managers can use to guide their own actions in ethical ways?