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Sociological Theories

1.Two teens have set up shop in an abandoned warehouse on the edge of town, distributing alcohol to their underage high school peers. They feel that there should be no charge for breaking and entering or trespassing because the warehouse was abandoned.
2.An inspiring young guitarist with no history of criminal activity experiences a skiing accident and in waiting for help, develops frostbite on her right hand. After losing her scholarship, she quickly turns to shoplifting as a means of getting by.
3.A nineteen year old with seven previous assault charges is charged after an argument with his probation officer escalated, resulting in an altercation with the officer. The argument began when the probation officer misused a slang word that the offender took as an insult.
4.A transvestite prostitute is picked up after propositioning an undercover agent. When asked why he would risk another charge, the prostitute mentioned that he had to have the latest Christian Louboutin shoes.

For one of the above scenarios, address the following:
Identify which sociological theories (one from Chapter 4 and one from Chapter 5) best capture the line of thinking/motives of the offender, and explain your rationale.
Explain to your offender one limitation of their line of thinking (i.e. One point you would argue to show them that their theoretical approach might be flawed.)
Finally, anticipate how the offender, based on theoretical perspective, would reply to your attempts to rehabilitate his behavior.

Budget Monitoring and Format

A quaint but well-established coffee shop, the Hot New Cafe, wants to build a new cafe for increased capacity. Expected sales are $800,000 for the first 5 years. Direct costs including labor and materials will be 50% of sales. Indirect costs are estimated at $100,000 a year. The cost of the building for the new cafe will be a total of $750,000, which will be depreciated straight line over the next 5 years. The firms marginal tax rate is 37%, and its cost of capital is 12%.

For this assignment, you need to develop a capital budget. It is important to know what the cafe managers should consider within their capital budget. You must also define the key terms necessary to understand capital budgeting. In this assignment, please show all work, including formulae and calculations used to arrive at financial values. You must answer the following:
Using the information in the assignment desrption: Prepare a capital budget for the Hot New Cafe with the net cash flows for this project over a 5-year period.
Calculate the payback period (P/B) and the net present value (NPV) for the project.
Answer the following questions based on your P/B and NPV calculations: Do you think the project should be accepted? Why?
Define and describe Net Present Value (NPV) as it pertains to the new cafe.
Define payback period. Assume the company has a P/B (payback) policy of not accepting projects with life of over 3 years. Do you think the project should be accepted? Why?

Your submitted assignment must include the following:
A double-spaced, two page Word document that contains answers to the word questions.
You must include a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet for your calculations.
Either the Word document or the Excel spreadsheet must have all of your calculation values, your complete calculations, any formulae that you used, the sources you wish to cite, and your answers to the questions listed in the assignment guidelines.

Reflective journal

Task:
Write a 750-word self-reflective journal on the following topic:

Reflect on the process of your group presentations. Identify and critically evaluate the strategies used, and indicate how you will address areas for development.
This assignment will be written throughout the semester.
Use at least three academic sources, correctly referenced, for your evaluation and analysis of the reflection. The Roehampton Harvard Referencing system should be used for any resources used as part of your research.
Formatting
Arial. Size 12
Word document (not a pdf)
1.5 spacing

Questions that could help you think about this evaluation could be what was positive/negative about the experience, why was it positive/negative, what did you learn from the situation and would you do it differently if you had to do it again. Use examples to illustrate your points