Question COURSE PROJECT OVERVIEW

COURSE PROJECT OVERVIEW

Each student will write a nine-to-ten-page, typed, double-spaced paper, with one-inch margins, on a particular criminal justice issue. Once the issue has been selected, students will write a description of the issue, discussing both sides of it, and close by stating their reasoned position on it. The paper must include a bibliography of at least five scholarly (i.e., peer-reviewed*) sources and must be in APA style. Students will submit various sections of the paper, including the final draft, as the course progresses.

Once the issue has been selected, each student will write a description of the issue, discussing both sides of it, and close by stating his or her reasoned opinion on the issue. The paper must include at least five scholarly sources (Wikipedia is not considered a scholarly source) and must be in APA style. Students will submit various sections of the paper, as the course progresses; see “Deliverables,” below.

Format: students need to provide the following:

• Introduction of topic; overview of what the paper is about (one page)
• Pros and cons on the topic (five to six pages)
• Explanation of personal view (one to two pages)
• Conclusion (one page)
• Bibliography (one to two pages)

* A peer-reviewed source is one that has been checked for its accuracy, by editors who are knowledgeable on the subject. Often, but not necessarily always, such sources have “Journal” in their titles.

DELIVERABLES

Topic Selection: By the end of Week 1, students need to select a topic from one of those listed below, or to generate a topic involving difference and the criminal justice process; this is the Writing Assignment for Week 1. For this one-page assignment, a student also has to explain what she or he expects to find after having done research and written the paper.

Framing Difference

• Should the law provide the sole means of creating and maintaining difference, when it comes to criminal justice?
• Why should a “dominant” population have the privilege to “construct crime” for those populations that are not “dominant?”
• Why should communication play so critical a role in talking through difference in the criminal justice process?

Categories of Difference

• Why should immigration status play so dominant a role in shaping categories of difference in the criminal justice process?
• Should age play as significant a role as it does regarding difference in the criminal justice process?
• Should gender play so significant a role in accounting for differential treatment through the criminal justice process?

How Does Difference Matter?

• Should wrongful and unlawful convictions continue to disproportionately affect some populations?
• Can the criminal justice process continue to use difference to account for the unfair treatment of some populations?
• Why should difference in terms of the consequences of the criminal justice process fall more heavily on so-called “undocumented” immigrants?

Reframing difference

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