Privacy in the workplace
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Employers conduct intrusive monitoring on their employees to check on their productivity, and to prevent theft and corporate espionage. Intrusive monitoring includes checking on e-mail and voice mail. The other forms of monitoring include drug tests, genetic tests and honesty tests.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1999
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Behind bars in the U.S. and Europe
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The shift in the American public's attitudes towards crime and not high crime rates is the reason why the US has higher prison rates than Europe. The number of people sent to prison, estimated to be more than 1.8 million, rose five times between 1972 and 1998.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1999
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Why do prisons grow?
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The expansion in the US's prison population is considered in terms of the significance of tough-on-crime policies and whether the expansion could have been avoided without harming the public.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2001
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