Length: four-five pages, typed, double-spaced Reflection paper draft due: December 10 by 11:59 p.m. Reflection paper final draft: December 14 by 11:59 p.m. Book: Crime and Criminal Justice Concepts and Controversies Interactive eBook by Stacy L. Mallicoat The reflection paper asks you to place your own experiences with the criminal justice system, or the lack of experience, in context. Use and apply our text to your own life. The reflection paper focuses on any of the chapters that we have read, applying the text to your own life. How has the criminal justice system affected your life personally? You can also talk about how the CJS has affected the life of someone close to you if you have had no experience with the criminal justice system. In either case, use theories and data from our text. You can focus on policing itself (chapters 7 and 8), courts and sentencing (chapters 9 and 10), the corrections system (chapters 11 and 12), the juvenile justice system (chapter 13), or trying to explain criminal behavior (chapter 4). Tell your story sociologically rather than as an autobiography per se. This paper is intended to help you understand sociological/criminal justice principles by observing them in everyday life. This is not primarily a research paper or a position paper: instead, use concepts, data, and theories from our text to ground your thoughts and feelings about your life.
Remember that if you include a sociology/criminal justice perspective as an afterthought without explaining the principles you invoke, you have only an interesting story. And if you talk about sociology/criminal justice principles but don’t apply them to yourself, you have also missed the boat. Fit your observations and experiences into a framework of facts and theories from our text. While you are free to disagree with the text, you may not ignore it. I am interested in your sociological/criminal justice imagination—how you make sense of the world from this perspective. Reference throughout the body of the paper, giving the page number. If you quote, use quotation marks, and give the page number. If you paraphrase, give the page number. If you would like, you can include two-three current scholarly sources along with our textbook. Sources must not be older than 2010. Use APA style when you cite in the body of the text and in the bibliography. However, it is not necessary to include scholarly sources. FYI: the sample papers come from a slightly different assignment. Read your paper thoroughly to catch errors, or use the Writing Center, so that your paper does not read like a draft. I hope this is a fun and useful assignment; it is always interesting for me to read! The grading includes the following elements: –Insight and understanding (use of text evidence combined with sociological imagination) –Organization (clarity—do things follow logically?) –English (spelling, sentence structure, grammar, etc.) –Documentation (page citations, author’s name, NO PLAGIARISM)
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