Paper Guidelines
Write a 5-7 page paper on one of the following options:
1) Interview a person that encountered the criminal justice system as a juvenile about his/her life story. What was their experience? How does this experience relate to readings and lectures?
2) Interview an “expert” about a specific theme such as gangs, crime, drugs, and violence and connect their responses to assigned readings. The expert can be a police officer, probation, social worker, teacher, youth worker etc.
3) Write a secondary sources paper one of the following topics: Alternative juvenile justice models (i.e. Missouri model, Restorative Justice), Parens Patriae, In Re Gault, Drug abuse, Juvenile physical abuse (in or out of system), Sexual Abuse, Gender, Criminalization, Profiling, Theories of Delinquency, Youth Crisis, Class, Race, Mass Imprisonment, DMC (disproportionate minority confinement), Juvenile facility conditions, gangs, superpredator. You will need to cite at least 3 academic journal articles. Additional citations to books and newspaper articles are optional.
You do not need a compelling argument. As long as you show an understanding of the problem and detailed description of what some of the research has shown in the area.
Provide a page with references (Chicago Style).
