Constitutional Law and Public Policy Analysis DB4

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Click on the following link(s) for the Week 1 Reading Assignment:

 

  • The discussion assignment for this week includes a review of the Key Assignment Outline completed by one of your classmates, as well as a substantial response to at least one other student.

Primary Task Response: Your first task is to post your own Key Assignment Outline to the discussion area so that other students are able to review your plan. Attach your document to the main discussion post, and include any notes you feel are appropriate. The purpose of this assignment is to help improve the quality of the Key Assignment Draft you will complete next week.

EXAMPLE/SAMPLE POST:  How should my posts/papers look this term?

 If your posts & papers look like this you are on the way to success on all assignments. If they don’t that is the reasoning behind lost points. SAMPLE PAPER/Discussion POST with CITATIONS and REFERENCES (3-4  paragraphs recommended for initial post and second/follow ups) 1-2 sentence posts would not qualify.  

Please DO NOT post attachments on the discussion boards.

Post in depth (3-4 paragraph) APA cited posts with in text/reference list (Quality is key); vs. avoid posting five (5) or six (6) one sentence posts without APA format/citing (Quantity is bad)

 (APPLY THE BOOK, CITING (IN TEXT AND REFERENCE LIST) AND PARAPHRASES AS WELL AS THE RESEARCH) For help with citing use www.citationmachine.net

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http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

 

NOTE I ONLY LOOK FOR 4 APA Items with DB's

1) In text citing, 2) Headings, 3) Reference list 4) Indenting paragraphs and expand in depth

 

EXAMPLE POST BELOW:

Criminology

Throughout time, criminologists began to ask complex social questions about the nature of crime and criminals. Many of the queries centered around the behavior of criminals, rather than on the criminality of behavior. There has been interest generated which has focused more upon accounting for the factors and influences which lead to criminal law violations and the behavior of offenders rather than it has upon the lawmaking processes through which criminal prohibitions are produced.

Contemporary views

There is no single theoretical position on crime causation that can be identified as the liberal perspective. There are many ways in which contemporary criminological theories can be classified. Contemporary views regarding deviance represent distinctive studies from Emile Durkheim (1858-1917). French sociologist Emile Durkheim was responsible for two seminal themes on crime and deviance. According to Goode (2005), he was one of the first to insist on the “normality” of criminality. Durkheim maintained that the “normal” and “pathological” are not intrinsically different forms of behavior. Durkheim asserted that it is neither possible nor desirable for a society to repress criminality completely. His second and possibly most important contribution to the study of deviant behavior is in the theory of anomie, which was originally developed as an explanation of suicide (Vold, Bernard and Snipes, 2002). When traditional rules have lost their authority over behavior, a state of deregulation, normalness, or anomie may exist.

Signs of violence

 The criminal serves as an identifying sign of the limits of permissible behavior. If these violations of normative sentiments could be repressed, both men and women would become sensitive to the less marked deviations which are now overlooked, and these acts would then be regarded as crimes (Schmalleger, 2007). These increasingly intolerable demands for conformity, which would then possibly be imposed on individuals, not thought of as criminals, would be detrimental to social progress.  

                 References

 

Goode, E. (2005). Deviant behavior. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. 

 

Schmalleger, F. (2007). Criminal justice today: An introductory text for the 21st century. (9th Ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.

 

Vold, G., Bernard, T., & Snipes, J.B. (2002). Theoretical criminology. New York: Oxford University Press.

 

 

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