Category: Criminology

This 6-7 page paper will be based on the neighborhood you wrote about for your first paper. Or, maybe you spend a lot of time at your workplace, you can write about that neighborhood instead. For this essay, you are expected to collect primary data, by conducting interviews (remember, you will not be able to interview anyone until you have completed your CITI certification). You will use the interview data you collect to include in the essay. For this essay you are expected to state more than your own personal opinion and views (as you did with Essay no. 1). You are expected to conduct some extra research into your neighborhood, such as crime rates, health reports, and community data. The library can help you with this research. You will write an essay similar to the one you wrote for the first paper, but now you will write it with more context – after an entire semester together you will now have an understanding of several perspectives related to the city, how and why are neighborhoods look and feel how they do, the public policies that impact our everyday lives, and how all of these impact how we see our neighborhoods as “safe” or “good” or “bad.” You will also have gone on at least two neighborhood tours with me. Some other things you should keep in mind as you write your essay and interview people about your neighborhood: Who lives there? What is around you? Are there parks? Are there community centers, churches, schools, gardens, etc? Does your neighborhood go by a nickname? Is it known today by a name that is realitively new? Are there changes happening in your community? What are the neighborhood’s demographic makeup over time? What makes your neighborhood unique? Are there any cultural events or activities in your neighborhood? For this paper I also want you to interview 2-3 people and ask them about their perception of crime and disorder in your neighborhood. You can interview anyone: a family member, neighbor, friend, teacher, police officer, librarian, even the local deli owner! You will use quotations from those interviews in your paper. In addition to including the quotes and other interview day, you will discuss in your paper public policy and its relationship to Criminal Justice and the Urban Environment where you live. This is where you will also use the secondary data, to give some context on what the folks are telling you. So, for example, if a person tells you “crime is at an all time high!” Then you will be able to say something about that comment, based on the data you collected on crime rates in your community. This essay will give you an opportunity to write about space, place, and our built environment as it relates to crime, our notions of crime, and our system of criminal justice. You should write this paper within the context of a student who has taken a class on criminal justice and the urban environment, and has read articles and reviewed materials that looks at the role all of the above have on our lives. Things to have in mind as you write this final paper: Spaces and how we navigate them can depend on the meaning we give these areas and whether or not we feel as if we have a sense of belonging or membership, or if others think we belong there. Name 2-3 places that you navigate differently depending on this context. The above navigation can be racialized – meaning, you might feel differently in a space depending on the race of those around you, or, people might make you feel as if you belong or not, depending on your/their race. Name how space is navigated in your neighborhood differently because of race. Discuss both tours taken this semester. Please do not limit your paper to simply responding to the above points. You are expected to demonstrate critical and analysitcal thinking, as well as be able to incorporate the information reviewed during the semster and taken several tours as a way to see firsthand some of the perspectives discusse

(a) Based on Healy and Barker’s analysis, do you agree or disagree with the experts? Explain your answer. 
(b) Why now? According to journalist Jenna Wortham, what are the reasons behind the success of the movement to do something about police shootings and racism? 
(c) Compare and contrast the positions of Mariame Kaba and Andrew Yang on defunding versus reforming the police. Summarize each writer’s position, indicate whether you favor defunding the police or reforming the police, and give at least two reasons in support of your position.  
(d) Do you agree or disagree with the Brookings Institute that defunding police and prison systems adds value to Black communities? Explain. (Please see this article) 
(e) What does Ibram X. Kendi say that conservatives and liberals get wrong about antiracism? (Please see this article)
Resources:
Jack Healy and Kim Barker, “Other protests flare and fade. Why this movement already seems different. New York Times, June 7, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/us/unrest-protests-minneapolis-ending.html.
Jenna Wortham, “A Glorious ‘Poetic Rage’: This time it’s different. Here’s why.” New York Times, June 5, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/sunday-review/black-lives-matter-protests-floyd.html. (About Black Lives Matter)
Andrew Yang, On Police Brutality. But what can we DO? Six ideas for police reform
Bryan Stevenson / Equal Justice Initiative
https://eji.org/bryan-stevenson
“Mildred Brown and the De Porres Club” 
Ibram X.Kendi, “What Conservatives – and Liberals – Get Wrong About Antiracism”

This is an essay of 1000 words (+/- 10%), excluding references. Therefore, the student will need to write in a succinct manner to get a good mark

For your final critical reaction paper you will be asked to analyze the documentary, The Prison WithinLinks to an external site., using theories, concepts, and ideas from the course. The goal is to demonstrate how the course material can be applied to the documentary in thinking critically about social issues related to punishment, politics, and justice. Papers should be between 8-10 double-spaced pages not including references.
To successfully write your paper, you will need to provide a brief summary of the documentary and select concepts, theories, or ideas from the class material which you will use to analyze the film in a thoughtful and comprehensive way. While you get to decide what of the course content you integrate into your paper, you must engage 7 ideas/concepts that we discussed throughout the semester. At least four of the ideas/concepts must be taken directly from the Simon, Davis, and Gilmore readings – this material must be cited direclty from the texts themselves. Additional ideas and concepts can come from lecture, group discussion, and other materials (i.e. podcasts, news articles, videos and other readings) and must be cited accordingly. In-text citations for lecture should be (Strong, week or date of lecture) and group discussion should be (group disc., week or date of discussion). The analysis will conclude with general thoughts and takeaways from the documentary. Please be sure to review the rubric throughout your preparation for and writing of the paper. The final portion of your critical reaction paper will provide a brief reflection on your overall takeaways from the course.
*You may select which formatting guidelines to follow. However, in-text citations must be properly notated i.e. author last name and year. If you use direct quotes then you must provide page numbers. A cover page is not necessary.
**Late papers will be assessed a point reduction. Papers will not be accepted after May 19th.
***Violations of academic integrity, such as plagiarism or papers written by artificial intelligence will result in a zero for the paper.

Read the summary of the background facts and holding in Texas v. Johnson (Links to an external site.) (note this has two pages to it) and analyze whether flag burning should be a crime. As you approach this discussion, do not provide what you personally feel to be the correct answer. Instead, reflect on the purpose of criminal law and the constitutional limitations that apply as you formulate your analysis. Further, address the approach taken in another country and whether it is legal to burn their country’s flag, and explain the reasoning.
Source 1
https://www.thoughtco.com/united-states-flag-burning-laws-history-721207
Source 2
https://www.casebriefs.com/blog/law/constitutional-law/constitutional-law-keyed-to-sullivan/freedom-of-speech-how-government-restricts-speech-modes-of-abridgment-and-standards-of-review/texas-v-johnson-3/

Address the general idea in relation to the topic for your initial post. Address each other with a minimum of two responses to your peers’ posts. 
Critique every thought.
Clarify your arguments.
Cite each of the lecture materials at least once in your posts.
Submission Instructions:
Your initial post should be at least 200 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources. 
Sources:
-PDF attached
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqAjAEPSVwM
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry5jTjBhZpA

Name the key impediments to successfully interdicting transnational crime and illicit trafficking in user states – especially when crime and terror cooperate? Provide examples.

Instructions:
Read and pick at least (2) two of the below question to respond too (you can chose to answer as many as you would like, but you must at least answer two).
Then, reply to at least one of your fellow students post with at least a 50 word response.
Please write in complete sentences, in APA format/style in text, in paragraph form, double spaced, 12-point font.
Your initial response should be 100 words in length total (150 word maximum length), reflecting on the prompt above.
Instructions: Let’s examine some case studies. Read the scenarios carefully. Determine what crime or crimes have been committed. Classify each as either mala in se or mala prohibita. Explain your classification.
You are a police officer and you are buying a cup of coffee at the local “Stop and Rob” convenience store. You see a juvenile male place a quart of milk inside his jacket. You approach the person and tell him to open his jacket. He complies. He apologizes for his actions. He explains that he could not afford to buy the milk, but he needs it for his child. He promises not to do it again and asks you to let him go.
A major pharmaceutical company introduces a new weight-loss drug. Although the pharmaceutical company knows that the drug may increase the chances of heart attacks and strokes, the company’s warning label states that, “Product X has no known side effects.” After the drug is linked to hundreds of heart attacks and strokes and dozens of deaths, the company pulls the drug off the market.
Laura has had a hard day at work. Before going home, she decides to stop at a local bar and have a couple of drinks. After consuming several drinks, she decides to drive home. She runs a red light and crashes head-on into another vehicle. The two occupants of the other vehicle are killed. One of the occupants of the car was 6 months pregnant at the time of the crash. Laura’s blood alcohol content was .18. She has a previous conviction for Driving Under the Influence (DUI).
John and Amy have been in a relationship for 10 years. Amy has grown tired of the relationship and has been having an affair with another man for the last 6 months. Amy and her lover make a plan to kill her husband. Amy takes out a $500,000 life insurance policy on her husband. Several weeks later, her lover breaks into Amy’s house and shoots and kills her husband. He takes a few valuables from the house to make it look like a burglary.
You and your partner are dispatched to a domestic dispute. When you arrive, you hear loud voices inside the house. You knock on the door and announce that you are with the police department. A small-framed male answers the door. You advise him that you’ve received a call about a domestic dispute. You notice that the man has a small amount of blood dripping from his lower lip, which also appears to be bruised. You ask the man if he is okay or in need of medical attention. He advises you that he and his “roommate” have had a little fight that “got out of hand.” A larger male is standing in the kitchen and he seems irritated that you are there. He speaks up and says “We were arguing and I lost my temper a little.” The smaller male advises you that he does not need medical attention and that he does not want to press charges.

A critical analysis of the relationship of Refugee Crisis to crime, harm and the state’.
·       critically analyse the refugee crisis with crime, harm and the state, by drawing on one or more of the themes of power, discourse and resistance.
·       use at least five sources, need to be a peer review journal article
·       use please information from the attached document. 

Describe the sin nature, 
describe how we get the sin nature
describe how we overcome the sin nature
derscibe the effects of the sin nature
describe how the sin nature plays or does not play a role in criminal behavior.
The full instruction sheet is attached below.
The Bible should be the only source used for the paper.