5 essay questions. (Criminal Justice)

Essay Instructions

· When developing your answers, you must include (cited) facts to support the major points in your response. Your responses should not include excessive citations, but should be paraphrased with your thoughts and analysis, also. That is, your responses must reflect a balance between facts and your perspective on the points you made.

· Your responses to EACH of the questions should be a minimum of 1 page and doubled-spaced, and written in 12 point Time New Roman font, in one Word. doc file.

· Include the question you are responding to IMMEDIATELY before EACH answer.

· Include a title/cover page.

· Include a reference page, cited and formatted in APA style.

Essay Questions

1. Explain why individual rights and public order perspectives are such contentious issues in contemporary American Society.

2. Briefly discuss how the main components of the criminal justice system can at times complement each other and at times also be in conflict with each other. Provide examples.

3. Of the various stages of the American criminal justice case, which singular stage, in your opinion, is most critical from the crime control perspective, and which stage from the due process perspective? Explain why.

4. Identify and discuss the differences between the two major sources of statistical data about crime in the United States.

5. Of the many special categories of crime, which singular special category do you think poses the most critical concern in contemporary American Society? Explain why